SOCIAL STATUS OF SELF-SUPPORTING WOMEN TAECHERS AND QUALITY OF LIFE

SOCIAL STATUS OF SELF-SUPPORTING WOMEN TAECHERS AND QUALITY OF LIFE

Today, the world is encountering with an increase in the number of self-supporting or household- supporting women teachers and quality of their life. In sociology and anthropology, social status is the honor or prestige attached to oneʹs position in society (oneʹs social position). It may also refer to a rank or position that one holds in a group, for example son or daughter, playmate, pupil, etc. This survey has been done in Fars Province, a city in south of Iran. The major criterion for selection of my sample was cluster sampling, then the researcher used simple random sampling as a final method for choosing the samples. In this study, the researcher has chosen 287 teachers of 1146 teachers of self-supporting women teachers in Fars Province according to Cochran Formula. The major tool for this study was Questionnaire. Using Chi-Square Test was shown that there is a relationship between social status and quality of life of self-supporting women. The Gama and Kendall coefficients were equal to 0.232 and 0.087, with a significant level of 0.01. According to this value, there is a positive Correlation coefficient but the amount of the coefficient is low.