Study of the Role of Modern Urban Management in Reducing the Social Harms of Female Heads of Households with Emphasis on Karaj City

Modern urban governance and management emphasize social, cultural, and environmental components rather than physical and economic components. Social harms are one of the main challenges of metropolises today, which requires the efforts of urban management in this area. The main purpose of this article is to investigate the role of modern urban management (based on two components of improving quality of life and establishing urban justice) in reducing social harms among female heads of households in need as social harm. The study method was a mixed method. Findings show female heads of households are divided into 5 types based on the problems they have in the field of home and family: 1) needy living, 2) distressed future, 3) homeless and unemployed, 4) physically and mentally ill, and 5) in trapped in the home, women were also divided into 5 groups based on problems in the public spheres, which are: 1) lack of security, 2) humiliated, 3) distrustful, 4) sexually abused, 5) compassionate. The most important areas of intervention for urban management and the municipality of Karaj are changes in the perception of female heads of households at the administrative level and in the public sphere, efforts to empower skills, livelihoods and jobs, health services, and time and so on.