رهيافتي جمعيت شناختي به اشتغال زنان : با ملاحظاتي بر وضعيت ايران

Demographic Approch on Womenʹs Employment: With References to Iran

This paper focuses on Womwnʹs employment, which, has experienced an increasing trend since 1950s, and its association with demographic variables. Demographers, like other scholars and researchers, have shown increasing interest in studying womenʹs employment during the recent years. This mainly lies in the substantial increase of female labour force participation and, more importantly, in signifivant interlink between womenʹs employment and demographic characteristics such as marriage and fertility patterns, migration and mortality. Using both theoretical studies and empirical research, this paper anaiyses demographic aspects of womenʹs employment. Iran has experienced substantial demographic changes particularly in terms of marriage and fertility patterns as well as the increasing achievement in womenʹs university education and positive attitudes towards womenʹs employment over the past year. Such changes facilitate the compatibility of family duties and womenʹs work outside the home. Accordingly, the theoretical discussion and empirical evidence of this paper also provide good basis to explain demographic consequences and dimensions of womenʹs employment in Iran.