امیرمحسن سعیدی

Abstract Today, the tendency of women to work outside the home is increasing and this issue has caused fundamental changes in the family system. Based on this, this research seeks to answer the question of what positive and negative effects and consequences women's employment outside the home can have on the family. The research method used is "qualitative" and uses the "phenomenological" method. Because in this research, an attempt has been made to examine the "lived experience" of people. The studied population in the current research are working women in areas ۱, ۱۲ and ۱۸ of Tehran, and the lived experience of these people was studied by conducting semi-structured interviews. By conducting ۱۲ interviews and reaching theoretical saturation, the obtained results showed that the consequences of women's employment in the family can be classified into positive and negative consequences. Positive consequences include four social dimensions (with the components of social learning and sociability), economic (with the components of economic foresight and economic well-being), psychological (with the components of satisfying individual psychological needs and satisfying family psychological needs) and cultural (with the components of positive housekeeping culture) and collective decision-making culture). The negative consequences also include four social dimensions (with the components of reducing relationships and not paying attention to childbearing), physical (with the components of physical disorder and nutritional disorder), psychological (with the components of creating negative feelings and not satisfying the role of the mother) and cultural (impairment in education). children and the culture of not accepting women's work). Keywords: women's employment, family, family relatio