A Study on the Decision-Making of the Families of Working Women in the Low-Income Group

Original Article

Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association 1986;24(4):163-177.

논문편 : 저소득층 취업주부 가정의 의사결정에 관한 연구 - 서울시 , 성남시 취업주부를 중심으로 -

이정우 , 김규원

A Study on the Decision-Making of the Families of Working Women in the Low-Income Group

Jung Woo Lee , Kyu Won Kim

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to present basic data of clarifying the differences between employed and unemployed wives' family and comparing low classes with other classes for the more reasonable and successful home administration through investigating and analyzing decision-making patterns of the families of working women in the low income group. The questionnaires were distributed in September 1984 to 300 working women in the city of Seoul and Sung-Nam. Statistical methods such as frequency, percentage and the mean value were used for grasping general characteristics of the families and F-test, Pearson's Correlations were used for investigating the interrelation of the related variables. The results of this study were as follows; 1) Wife's participation indecision-making was increased while joint decision-making was decreased compared with those of unemployed wives' family and other classes. 2) Both of the degree of conjugal participation in decision-making and joint decision-making were influenced by wife's educational level, disparity in educations of couple, husbands' occupation, family income, wife's age. But duration of marriage affected only the degree of joint decision-making. Especially family income and husbands; occupations turned to be important variables in low income families. 3) In case of wife's satisfaction with her occupation, joint decision-making was well achieved or not according to certain decision items. Though wife and husband satisfied with their marriage, joint decision-making was not well performed in working wives' family with low income.