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Family is one of the fundamental and primary social institutions. It has undergone many changes during the history, including women's work outdoors which affected structure and functions of the family institution. The main objective of this research was to evaluate the effect of famale worker's employment on their decision-making power and on their husbands' data form Iran, 1986. These methods include: 1. The method based on the assumption of even distribution of deaths in the age distribution. 2. Greville methods. 3. The Recd-Merrell method. These methods, at the end, are compared and evaluated