The comparison of Marital Satisfaction in Employed and Non-Employed Women: A Meta-Analysis

Women's employment is one of the most important factors that have a significant impact on marital life variables, such as marital satisfaction.

The present study seeks to compare the marital satisfaction of employed and unemployed women with the meta-analysis method. A lot of research has been done in this regard, which have reported very different and sometimes contradictory results. The meta-analysis is a set of systematic techniques for solving the contradiction of the findings of various researches on a subject.

Using internal databases, all the research (paper and thesis) was collected. Finally, 47 studies were conducted between 1379 to 1396, that 18 samples were selected using in-depth metrology metrics.

In total, the effect size of the combination in the fixed effects model has a constant of 0.180 and in the random effects model of 0.282.

Women's employment has a significant positive effect on marital satisfaction. .