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Iran is one of the countries that have been confronted whit the growth of additional population, recently. So it is important to research about effective factors on it. Although different factors such as health and clinical ones are interfered in vacillations of fertility and country's population, but initial studies showed that the situation of women's employment is one of the main reasones that influence the number of children.
The main objective of the research is to assess the effect of female
worker's employment on the number of children.
It is obvious that this strata is one of the deprived one that often have
many children.
The hypothesis of the research is: The number of children that the
employed women have are less than those of the unemployed ones.
To test this hypothesis, the opinions and the children's number of two
groups of women were compared:
1. The employed female workers III "Tolidaru Pharmaceutical
Company" (130 women).
2. The housewives whose husbands were employed as workers in the
above mentioned company (130 women).
The required information was collected through questionnaires.
The analysis of tables was done through the comparison of frequencies, percentages, chi-square,t student, cramer'_ s V, Phi and Gamma.
The following results were achieved:
The desired and the actual number of children that the employed
women have are less than those of the unemployed ones. The increase in the number of children of the employed women is proportionate to the increase in the length of marriage, but it has an inverse correlation with the level of their education. There is not any relationship between the number of children and the income of the household or the age of the women. The number of children of the unemployed women is related to the following four factors, listed according to their degree of importance: The length of their marriage, the age of the women, the level of the education of the women and the household income. The level of education of the women has an inverse correlation with the numbers of the children, but the increase in other three factors is proportionate to its increase.