Burdens imposed on working and non-working women’s husbands

Abstract

This study aimed to reveal and compare between burdens imposed on working and non-working women’s husbands, to show how they set their roles and responsibilities for each, the extent of existence of differences with statistically significant of these burdens, considering these differences in order to compare them with each other. In order to achieve goals of the study, the scholar have created a Questionnaire as a method of collecting data in terms of three aspects: (Marital compatibility, social roles, economic roles, and psychological roles) with number of paragraphs (8,7,7,7) with this rank and total questionnaire’ paragraphs (33) and insured of its consistency. The study was conducted on a sample available to the researcher on the husbands to working and non-working women that included (196) husbands; (74) were husbands of working women and (122) were husbands to non-working women. The results revealed the way of setting priorities for husbands of working women as follows: (Marital compatibility, psychological roles, economic roles, and social roles), while the set of priorities for husbands to non-working women was as follows: (economic roles, Marital compatibility, psychological roles, social roles). The study also revealed that there were no statistically significant differences ( = 0.05) in marital compatibility between husbands of working and non-working women, and the existence of differences with statistical significance in the economic roles burdened the husband between the husbands of working women and non-working women, the differences came in favor of the working women’s husbands. And the existence of differences with statistical significance in the psychological roles burdened the husband between the husbands of working women and non-working women, the differences came in favor of the working women’s husbands.