Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS R0xQc804. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. This paper analyses research on the impact of work on mothers'health in Tehran (Iran) within a role analytic framework. A survey was conducted of a representative sample of working and non-working mothers in Tehran in 1998 (N=1065,710 working mothers, and 355 non-working mothers). Three main explanatory factors were examined (socio-demographic, work and work-related and social-life context variables) alongside a range of mental and physical health outcome variables. Unlike in the West, where women's paid work is generally associated with better health, statistically significant differences between working and non-working women were not found in Tehran. It is argued that this is a result of the counter-balance of the positive and negative factors associated with paid work such as increased stress on one hand and self-esteem on the other. Iranian society's particular socio-cultural climate has contributed to this finding, with its dominant gender-role ideology ; the priority and extra weight placed on women's traditional roles as wives and mothers, and the remarkably influential impact of husbands'attitudes on women's health.
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