خلاصة:
Rural women face marginalization in decision-making processes, encountering numerous obstacles against active participation in the community affairs. This study aims to explore the possibilities and tools through which women themselves express and articulate their demands and opinions. The data collection utilized qualitative methods, primarily through semi-structured interviews with women from Hoshak village in Sistan and Baluchestan province. The analysis employed Thematic Analysis. The findings reveal that beyond conventional methods, rural women employ cyberspace groups (WhatsApp) as mechanisms to voice their concerns. In case of setbacks, they resort to actions such as escalating demands to higher authorities, seeking mediation from village leaders, or taking spontaneous actions to address their needs. Influencing factors on women's voice in the village include special privileges for some women to express themselves, while disincentives involve rural community and women's considerations upon women's presence and participation, impossibility for women to attend village meetings, and discriminations against women in village cyberspace groups. The results suggest that an expectation has developed among women, particularly those with higher education levels, to be acknowledged and heard by village officials. Consequently, traditional administrative attitudes toward women in rural areas have become less effective. The transformative experience of the village's cyberspace group provides women with information about local events and opportunities to express their demands and opinions. In conclusion, despite women creating pathways and mechanisms within rural culture, their peripheral status persists due to factors such as awareness levels, information sharing, and limited opportunities for effective expression.
ملخص الجهاز:
Studying the mechanisms of Balochi women to convey their voice to rural management 1* (Case study: Hoshak village from Saravan county) Saboura Semnanian 2, Hossein Imani Jajarmie 3 (Received date: 2024/07/30, Accepted date: 2024/03/23) Abstract Rural women have been placed on the margins of decision-making and face obstacles in participating in the destinies of their society.
22034/JSS/202520295861842 1 Extracted from the Master's thesis of Saboura Semnanian titled "Studying the mechanisms of women's voice expression in rural management (Case study: Hoshak village from Saravan county)", Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tehran.
The necessity of studying this issue is greater in the country's border provinces because, following the dominance of the center-periphery model in Iran (Sheikh Biglu and Taqvaei, 2013; Sadeghi and Shokriani, 2016; Ghanbari, 2011), these regions have become marginalized and have more limited access to development resources and consequently less power to express their demands and convey their voices to the center-oriented decision-makers of their societies.
The reasons include ambiguous legislation, failure to delegate the expected power and decision-making authority for a local governance institution, ambiguity in financial status, lack of proper separation between national and local affairs, and consequently, the disruption of relations between councils and 36 A study of the mechanisms of Balochi women to bring voice to rural management...
3. Deterrents to expressing voice Rural social considerations and women's considerations Cultural issues arising from patriarchal traditions are among the factors preventing women's full access to participation opportunities in councils to pursue their demands (Imani Jajermi and Karimi, 2009).
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