TY  - JOUR
T1  - Sociological Analysis of Professional Skills and its Impact on the
Employment of Female-Headed Households
(With Emphasis on Female-Headed Households Covered by the
Relief Committee of Imam Khomeini in Tehran in 2014)
AU - Ismaili, Reza AU - Goudarzi, Soraya AU - Jahanbakhsh, Ismail 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 11
IS  - 4
SP  - 439
EP  - 446
PY  - 2016
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2016.439.446
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2016.439.446
KW  - Skills
KW  -jobs
KW  -householders` women
KW  -empowerment
KW  -income
AB  - The aim of this study was to investigate sociological analysis of professional skills and its impact
on the employment of female-headed households with emphasis on female-headed households covered by the
Relief Committee of Imam Khomeini in Tehran in 2014. Female-headed households are often vulnerable to
damage such as lack access to job opportunities, illiteracy or low literacy, lack of continuous income and other
severe mental health problems that if they continue, remarkable damages will be created to the community
bodies. The current research population was 28399 individuals of householders’ women covered by the Relief
Committee of Imam Khomeini who 386 individuals were selected as sample. In this study, in order to answer
questions both a qualitative and quantitative approach was used in the quantitative approach, data collection
was performed through questionnaire and in qualitative approach, check lists of depth interviews with
phenomenological technique of female-headed households was used. The results showed that low percentage
of female-headed households had the skills and most of them (85.5%) for different reasons had no desire to
acquire skills and are engaged in activities such as education and nursing (both children and adults), cleaning,
secretarial and jobs with low-wage. According to the study, most of the problems of this group of women were
economic (including housing and adequate income), psychological and social (lack of security and isolation).
ER  -