Qualitative Studying the Role of Cross-border TV Channel Movies on Housewives and Working Women Interact with Their Husbands

The present study was a qualitative study with the aim of studying the role of cross-border network drama films on how homemaking and working women interact with their husbands. The research society included working housewives living in Tehran through 2020, who watched movies on Persian-speaking channels based outside of the country. Among the aforementioned population, sampling was done in a targeted manner in form of snowballs and to the extent of saturation. Using semi-structured interviews, information related to the sample was collected and the research findings were analyzed by content analysis. After analyzing the content of the interviews and coding them, 9 themes on housewives and 9 more themes on working wives were extracted from the channels that directly affected their interactions with their husbands. Findings showed that the role of the channel movies on how housewives and working women interact with their husbands contains two nuclear themes including "although the instability of families in foreign movies is blamed by housewives but their lifestyles and interactions are influenced by these films" and "although the instability of families in foreign movies is blamed by working women but wanton communication among characters is their ideal type of communication they expect in their lives. "According to the results, such films affect women's interactions in their married life.