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Role of social workers to support single mothers: A case study of welfare receivers in Iran

Year: 2011

Type: article

Abstract: The women who lose their partners normally face tremendous challenges among their parents and in society.Women may lose their husbands for different reasons such as divorce, drug addiction, violence and migration.They may often look to build a new life very quickly but will find out that society does not treat them, properly.It is more difficult to find job and even a job opportunity does not provide sufficient pay.In this paper, we study the impact of different affecting parameters on empowering single mothers such as audacity, social responsibility, trouble shooting, flexibility, stress tolerance, etc.We choose 200 single mothers who receive welfare from the government of Iran and distribute a questionnaire among them based on four different questions associated with social, economical, feeling and empowering.The results indicate that audacity and social responsibility are the most important items while being optimistic, independent and flexibility are counted as having the least impact on empowering single mothers.

Source: Management Science Letters

DOI: 10.5267/j.msl.2011.08.002

Author: Mohammad Reza Iravani

Institutions: Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Islamic Azad University of Khomeynishahr

Language: English

Topic: Social Sciences and Policies

Subfield: General Social Sciences

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Gender equality, No poverty, Reduced inequalities, Decent work and economic growth

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: Islamic Azad University