Cognizance of Dominant Gender Role Beliefs in Kurdish Culture

The present study aim was to investigate the attitudes of dominant gender role in Kurdish culture from counselors view point in province of Kurdistan. The participants in this survey included all of the school and the technical counseling clinics counselors in province of Kurdistan. So to select the sample, the convenience sampling method was used. Since the sampling standard in qualitative surveys is data saturation, 28 counselors participated in this survey. The study was qualitative regarding content analysis. Data were collected through a researchers' initiated questionnaire and were analyzed using the open and axial coding. For determining content and face validity, the measuring tool was professors' ideas and for determining qualitative validity, the researcher self-reviewing techniques were used and for determining qualitative survey reliability of comments coders and amount interceder agreement in coding data and determine categories, were used. The results led to the identification of five main categories (characters, relationships, work, work and social obligations, social and cultural structures) and nineteen subcategories that any of which contained secondary topics. Opinions expressed in the category of character categories and sub-categories of cognitive, behavioral and social responsibility were among beliefs expressed by most of counselors and were mentioned and beliefs expressed in social and cultural structures categories had the least amount of frequency.