A VIEWPOINT TOWARD EMPOWERING AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP OF RURAL WOMEN IN IRAN: SITUATIONS AND PROBLEMS
Journal Title: Black Sea Journal of Public and Social Science - Year 2018, Vol 1, Issue 2
Abstract
Two main goals of sustainable development are increasing capabilities of human race and expansion of people choices in their lives. Despite the increasing awareness of the great potentials of women in development, women all over developing countries still face the age-old problems of neglect, inequality, lack of access to productive resources and dependency on men. It is sad to note that despite the level of civilization in the world, gender inequality and disparities between men and women are still prominent in many developing countries. Empowerment is a process in each woman’s life but is also a process occurring over time in a society. Rural women cooperatives are the main local based organizations for empowering female gender in villages of Iran that had very successful performances during last two decades. In this article, author investigated various aspects of empowerment rural women by these cooperatives in South-Khorasan province, east of Iran, with emphasizing on their current empowerment situations and problems and finally present approaches for bettering them. For achieving this purpose, after a wide literature review in related contexts in world and Iran, author did a broad field research work during 2014 – 2016 on rural women cooperatives of South Khorasan province. The research design used for this study was a descriptive-analytical method. The population for the study consisted of the managers and the board of directors of these rural women cooperatives in 2014 – 2016 (about 120 rural women). Data gathering method in this study was census. Main instrument for data collection was questionnaire. In addition, qualitative research methods of data collection such as participation, discussion, interviewing, documentations and observation were been used. In the end, presented ways and approaches that we must do for strengthening empowerment of rural women.
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Farhood GOLMOHAMMADI
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