Comparison of Leisure Consumption between Working Wives and Housewives in Sari City

Present paper compares the consumption of leisure between working wives and housewives in Sari city in Mazandaran province by problematizing effect of women employment on their leisure framework and by using adjusted form of Arlie Hochschild' leisure gap theory. The method of research is survey with causal - comparative approach. The statistical population of research is two groups of working wives and housewives (unemployed) and sample size is equal to 300 persons (150 persons from each group) who were selected by cluster, simple random and systematic sampling methods. Results showed the significant difference of leisure consumption between two working wives and housewives groups in according to three variables including level, how and satisfaction. Results imply the dual nature of Henderson's theory that conceives "one size doesnt fit all". In that, although there is different model about leisure consumption within women stratification and the major difference of this model between working wives and housewives is mainly in intense and quality than surface and quantity, but main site for consuming leisure between working wives and housewives is home.