A comparative study of moral judgment of school girls whose mothers are housewives and those whose mothers are employed

Given the importance of the employment of women and its impact on the formation of the character of the children, the main purpose of this study was to compare moral judgment of children with employed mothers and children with housewife mothers. The population of this study consisted of 5th grade primary school girls in Rey city of Tehran. Sampling method was based on cluster random sampling. Sixty students with employed mothers and 60 students with housewife mothers were selected as the statistical sample. To collect the data, the moral judgment questionnaire was used. In order to analyze the data, in addition to descriptive statistics, conclusive statistics such as T test was also used. The results indicated that the average moral judgment among students having employed mother was higher than the ratio of the housewife mothers.