Housewife's performance towards family's duties and roles in light of "COVID-19" crisis in relationship to variables of social and economic level of the family | ||||
| International Design Journal | ||||
| Article 12, Volume 10, Issue 3, July 2020, Page 163-178 PDF (431.41 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/idj.2020.96341 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
| Mona Mostafa El-Zaki | ||||
| Professor of Management institutions of family and childhood, Home Economics College, AL Azhar University | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| UN Women confirmed in its most recent data that "COVID-19" pandemic has proven that women has a major role in facing the disease, as women make critical contributions every day to tackle the spread of the disease, which the World Health Organization has been classified as a pandemic like the Spanish flu in 1918 and the Black Plague in the 14th century. Hence all sectors of the society have to cooperate to confront this epidemic, and women had the biggest role as they are the first line of defense for the family and exert every effort to protect her family from "COVID-19" by doing her duties, responsibilities and family roles. Objectives:: to identify the relationship between the performance of the housewife's tasks (hygiene and cleaning, purchase and storage, care and family care, social relationships inside and outside the home, total questionnaire to perform family tasks). and some of the economic and social variables of the family in light of the spreading crisis of "COVID-19.". Sample: consists of (394) housewives married with children from different economic and social levels from Gharbia Governorate, in a purposeful shell method, and the research followed the descriptive and analytical method. Time limits: The implementation was done electronically "during the spread of the COVID-19 virus" from March 10 to April 15, 2020. - The research tool consisted of a general data form for family, a questionnaire on the performance of the female head of household, her family roles and her roles during the spread of the "COVID-19" virus tasks (hygiene and cleaning, purchase and storage, care and family care, social relationships inside and outside the home, total questionnaire to perform family tasks). Rresults: There is a statistically significant difference between the performance of the female head of the family in her family tasks and roles in light of the spreading crisis of the Corona virus, in all family tasks (hygiene and cleaning, purchase and storage, care and family care, social relationships inside and outside the home, total questionnaire to perform family tasks) at a lower level of significance From (0,05) according to each of (the age of the head of the family, number of children, level of education of the head of the family, job of the husband, monthly income of the family, fear of the head of the family in light of the spreading crisis of Corona virus). - There is a statistically significant difference between the performance of the female head of the family and her family roles in light of the spreading crisisof Corona virus, in all family tasks (hygiene and cleaning, purchase and storage, care and family care, total questionnaire to perform family tasks) at a level of significance less than (0.05) Depending on the job of the housewife. - There is a statistically significant difference between the performance of the female head of the family in her family tasks and roles in light of the spreading crisis of Corona virus, in all family tasks (hygiene and cleaning, purchase and storage, social relations inside and outside the home, total questionnaire to perform family tasks) at a level of significance less than (0, 05) before and after the spread of Coronavirus. - There is no statistically significant difference between the performance of the female head of the family in her family tasks and roles in light of the spreading crisis of Corona virus, in social relations inside and outside the home depending on the wife's job. - There is no statistically significant difference between the performance of the female head of the family in her family tasks and roles in light of the spreading crisis of Corona virus in family care and care tasks before and after the spread of the Corona virus | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Female Head Performance Family Roles Corona Virus "COVID; 19" Social Level Variables Economic Level Variables | ||||
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