Investigating The Impacts of Women’s Political Participations on Gender Role Schemas

Employment can affect on gender role schemas. The present study was conducted with the aim of comparison the gender role schemas of women working in political and non-political executive organizations.

This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was comparative. The research population was women working in political and non-political executive organizations of Mashhad city in 2019 year. The sample consisted of 114 women working in political organizations who were selected by census sampling method and 384 women working in non-political organizations who were selected by cluster sampling method. The research instrument was a short form of gender role schema inventory (Bem, 1981) whose validity was confirmed by experts' opinion and its total reliability was obtained 0.86 by Cronbach's alpha method. Data were analyzed by tests of Chi-square, Fisher and independent t in SPSS-22 software.

Findings showed that women working in political and non-political executive organizations based on Chi-square test in terms of education and marriage, based on Fisher test in terms of birth province, birth city, job category and based on independent t-test in terms of mean age and work experience there were no significant difference (P>0.05). Other findings showed that the mean score of  masculine gender role schemas of women working in political executive organizations was significantly higher than women working in non-political executive organizations (P˂0.05), but there were no significant difference in terms of  mean scores of feminine gender role schemas and social utility schemas (P>0.05).

The results showed that masculine gender role schemas in women are affected by employment in political and non-political executive organizations.