Employment Status and Home Management Strategies Among Married Women in Uyo Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria

The study focused on employment status and home management strategies among married women in Uyo Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. Five objectives and two research hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. A descriptive survey design was adopted. The sample comprised 363 married women determined by Taro Yamane (1973) formula for finite population. Simple random sampling technique was used in sample selection. Data was collected with the use of a structured questionnaire titled “Home Management Strategies Questionnaire (HMSQ)”. The questionnaire was divided into three sections. Section A, covered demographic characteristics of the respondents, section B elicited information on their employment status, while section C was a three point scale of preference stated as “Always” “Sometimes” and “Never” to measure the extent of use of home management strategies by the respondents. Copies of the questionnaire were distributed by hand to the 363 respondents in their homes, offices and business places in the four clans that make up the study area, on the spot collection was adopted to retrieve all questionnaire given out. Descriptive statistics such as frequency, simple percentages, and Pearson Product Moment Correlation (r) were used for data analyses. Results revealed that problem identification was the most used home management strategy, followed by resource assessment, multi-tasking, plan adjustment, division of labor, progress assessment, goal clarification, outcome evaluation, and standard setting. Significant relationship was found to exist between employment status of respondents and home management strategies. Hypothesis one revealed no significant relationship between the ages of respondents and home management strategies used (r = .0.994; p>.01), while hypothesis two showed that educational level was positively related to the use of home management strategies (r = 0.21; p