This study highlights foundation that women encompass – inside their houses as unpaid family work, as wage-earners to be found at the lowest position of income generating work and as care-givers. Here few questions could come to one’s mind that what is the extent of women’s responsiveness regarding work, of everyday jobs, of class and role? How do they differentiate themselves being dominated under weight of various roles? Or are they doubly demoralized by the patriarchal system? How this amalgamation of professions is made possible? The study illustrates field research seeking answers to these questions. The interviewing schedule created for this research included questions that aimed at obtaining personal data about the respondents, such as age, educational attainment, marital status, number of children, typology of work, etc. The data drawn from sample shows ability of self employed working women to balance their income generating work with their communal roles of food preparation, cleaning, caring, parenting and other domestic chores. Therefore, the vision that this research explores, deny the imagined characteristics of women as a male responsibility. These self employed women indeed are heads of their households. This timely study invites all concerned authorities, policy makers and governmental institutions to recognize this reality and consequently plan for the upcoming decades.
Gender, Division of Unpaid Family Work and Psychological Distress in Dual-Earner Families
