The evaluation of Urban Life quality, with emphasis on gender, Case Study: Ghorveh City

Today thanks to social justice and welfare schools, the concept of urban life quality has been more focused on; and in order to increase the quality of urban life in Iran, various discussions and efforts have been also done over the past years. In this regard, using the theoretical issues and the most important corresponding indicators, this study aimed to evaluate the life quality of Ghorveh residents, in general, and the differences between the life quality of women and men, in particular. The methodology employed in this study was descriptive analytical. The data were collected through qualitative field research, from libraries and questionnaires, and then were analyzed by SPSS software.The results of the study showed that the quality of life for Ghorveh residents was not at a desirable level and the average of indices was totally less than 3. The highest average was related to the neighborhood index with 3.24 and the lowest average was to do with economic with 1.99. The results obtained from the independent tow-sample T also indicated that there was a significant difference between the life quality of men and women in Ghorveh that is the life quality of men was better than that of women. Finally, the results showed that employment failed to improve the life quality of women.