نشریه زن در توسعه و سیاست
سال یازدهم شماره 2 (تابستان 1392)

Eating, as a way for Body Management reproduces a social function and meaning beyond its biological performances. Thus, it’s meaning has been transformed from a bodily need to a fundamental element in expression and narrativeness of social identity and social positions. The main question of this paper targets the ways women reconstruct and reinterpret their social positions through food and eating. Field operation of the research is conducted according to the ethnographic method. Data of research gathered through Semi structured interview technique and the data analyzed by grounded theory. The findings, based on interviewing with 30 women informants, demonstrated fundamental changes in their lifeworld and subjective orientation to food and eating. According to their perspective, food and eating is interpreted as obviating starvation, simplicity, operational, aesthetics and Stylization significances among women.

Women as half of the citizens, parks and green spaces reserved have been one of the main centers and recreational facilities in addition to the health and psychological aspects. The sustainable development and improving the quality of life of women in urban is evaluation of Women Park designing with appropriate gender perspective. Research methods is in library, field survey and study by time (summer 2013). The population size is women over 18 years of Tabriz and sample size based on a random index is obtained 114 people. The results based on Freidman test show that the greatest satisfaction of the residents of how to design of Shams Women Park of Tabriz is belonging to variables of appropriate design in inner space of park than aristocracy of nearby buildings, vitality and freshness because of design for park interior spaces, psychological sense of security and peace in the Park. The value for each test is respectively 13.08, 12.76 and 12.62. Also in among the studied variables, lowest test value is 5.24 that it’s belongs to welcome the ladies of park variable. The results are indicating a significant relationship between age and education level of the respondents and satisfaction of Women Park.

The purpose of this study is to answer these questions: What is the ideal number of children for married women and what is its relationship to their religiosity and gender role attitudes. To answer this question, the literature reviewed, and questionnaire among 400 married women in Shiraz distributed using stratified random sampling. Findings showed that also religiosity has a significant relationship to actual number of children but there is a considerable agreement about ideal number of them can be seen regardless of religiosity. Attitudes towards gender roles have a significant relationship with the ideal number of children which remains significant after control of other variables. Finding suggests that women plan number of their children regarding the role of a good woman in their mind. The results show that the rate of population growth has strong cultural roots and is a consequence of changing values to more individualistic nature and gender role attitudes. Women now are more care about quality of family life and upbringing better children and it is more important than the number of children.

In recent years, women’s presence has increased in society and in work spaces. Nevertheless, the rate of their promotion to high ranking managerial positions does not correspond to their educational developments in most of countries, especially in Iran due to some barriers which are different in different societies and companies and at different times. The aim of this survey is to identify and prioritize the barriers keeping women away from managerial positions (in oil industry). In this research the barriers of women’s presence in managerial positions identified using a qualitative method and interview with 47 experts and mangers of oil industry in Tehran. Then the barriers prioritized from the viewpoint of women and men using Analytic Hierarchy Process. The results show men consider the individual barriers more important and have a negative attitude towards women's capabilities and capacities, while women consider the individual barriers less important.

According to the logic of 'weak tie's Partnership organized through links with a wider range of people causes of social capital among a group of citizens will increase. So it seems, increasing participation among people, ultimately leading to increased cooperative activities among them. While the impact of social networks on political relations, much attention has been. There is very little empirical research to evaluate the impact of these networks, especially in relation to political behavior. Accordingly, this study seeks to answer this question: “Is there a relationship between social networks and political behavior of the male and female students?” This study is a survey method and the sample size of 375 patients’ male and female university students of Isfahan in 91-92 years. The methods used to test the hypothesis t-test, correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis. Dividing social networks both horizontal and vertical dimensions and political behavior the two-level political Behavior excel – affiliate and, excel – Battalion. The results showed that horizontal networks highest impact and sex and the student has had little impact on the political behavior of students.

Having the highest mortality rate among mental illness, eating disorders is one of major concerns of World Health Organization nowadays. So, the study with aiming to specify the relationship between eating disorders and emotional intelligence being known as a sociopsychological variable is trying to explain the levels of eating disorders among the female students. The method of this research was survey and the measurement tools were closed questioners. The population of the study was all undergraduate female students of Tabriz University in 92-93 (4514 students) which 367 of them were selected through stratified random sampling by Cochran formula. The data were analyzed by spss software. The results show that emotional intelligence and its dimensions have a negative and significant correlation with eating disorders and its dimensions, somehow; as the self-awareness, selfcontrolling, social consciousness, social skills and finally emotional intelligence of respondents increase; correspondingly, eating disorders will decrease and vice versa. Based on regression analyzes among the studied variables social consciousness variable with Beta= - 1.24 is a significant factor in predicting eating disorders.

The mail goal of the Present paper is to study the influence of informal social networks support on job satisfaction of married women using the direct effect of social support and Durkheimian anomie theories and Network analysis perspective. It has been performed using survey method and questionnaire. Statistical population is constituted of all working and married women (20-55) living in Ardabil. Participants were 356 women chosen by multistage cluster sampling. The Cronbach's Coefficient Alpha of 0.70 for job satisfaction and 0.79 for social support shows face validity of this variables and appropriate reliability of the tests. Results indicate that the women's satisfaction level of job is high and also support level received from informal networks is average. After the husband, among different informal networks, relative networks in emotional support and colleague networks in instrumental and informational support have the most support rate, while neighborhood networks have the least rate of support. The results of correlation coefficient show that social support as a mediator variable in the relationship of network size and frequency of contact with job satisfaction operates. Moreover, regression results show that age, network size, frequency of contact and informal social networks support are affective variables on job satisfaction of married women.

Power is an important social variable in the study of the social structure, institutions, groups and individuals considered to be a conventional relationship and family is no exception. The main purpose of this article to review the decision making power of women in the family is white and its influencing factors. This research is a quantitative survey, which was conducted in 2011 in the town of processes might work. Our findings indicate that women in decisionmaking processes might work in family income affect women, women's education, spouse's education, women's employment, place of birth, how to choose a wife, the mother of the family of origin and stereotypical attitudes towards gender. Also among the variables, variables such as age, age difference between spouses, length of marriage, type of marriage and legal barriers to women's decision-making power in the household are significant. Drthlyl multivariable regression variables as income, the mother's family of origin and stereotypical attitudes, a total of 4.13% of the variance in family decision-making power of women in the population account.