Abstract Background and Aim: Marriage is the most important decision in life and 95% of the people marry during their life. Common life was influenced by different variables. These variables cause wife and her husband to be satisfied or unsatisfied from their life. The purpose of this study was the comparison of marriage satisfaction in housewives and employed women and their husbands in Gonabad. Materials and Methods: This is a cross-sectional and analytic study. Data collection was performed in two stages. At first stage cluster sampling and at second stage simple random sampling was done and 25 housewives copples and 25 employed women copples were studied. The data was collected by demographic information and Enrich questionnaire and were evaluated by using of t test and ANOVA and linear regression. Results: The mean of satisfaction score in employed women and their husbands was 3.6 and in housewives and their husbands were 3.7 with no significant difference between them. There was no significant difference between satisfaction and education levels in the two groups but it was significant between satisfaction and income in men,and between satisfaction and age of marriage in women.There was a significant difference in marriage satisfaction between employed women and housewives after a time of marriage(P=0.02). Conclusion: There are variables which influence on married life satisfaction on men and women that these variables must be recognized.

Keywords: Married life satisfaction; Housewife; Employed women; Husband

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