Identifying the Factors of Satisfaction/Dissatisfaction Caused by the Beginning of Women's Employment After Marriage (From the Perspective of Spouses)

Aim: today, many reasons, such as education, interest in social presence, desire to achieve economic welfare, and confronting inflation, have led to the widespread acceptance of married women towards employment. the present research was conducted in 2022 on a community of families living in tehran, where women started working after marriage. method: the research method was qualitative and grounded theory, and the research tool was a semi-structured and in- depth interview. findings: the data reached saturation with the participation of 19 couples. from the analysis of the conducted interviews, the factors of creating satisfaction/dissatisfaction along with the contexts, facilitators, and interveners and their consequences, as well as the strategies that spouses use to achieve satisfaction from the phenomenon of employment after marriage, were obtained. the main category concluded that spouses' satisfaction/dissatisfaction with women's employment after marriage is based on the quality of the marital relationship and the existence of support resources from a family of origin. conclusion: casual results conducted from the current research include: spouse's support/disapproval, a family of origin's support, children's support, man's satisfaction with wife's professional status and type of job, financial prosperity, pressure and density role that has a determinative role in the spouses' sense of satisfaction through their relationship after women's employment. the results of current research and the obtained model can be used to adaptively confront the changes resulting from employment after marriage, enrich the relationships of spouses as much as possible, and stabilize families.