خلاصة:
The main goal of this research was to study participation barriers of rural women in agricultural production activities. The type of the study was an applied research. To determine the barriers of rural women's participation descriptive and factor analysis techniques were implemented as well. The Sample included 288 rural women that were selected by incidental sampling procedure( with in reach). Based on the resulted outcome the rural women, retained an average level in terms of social features (social participation and social status). More use of factor analysis techniques determined the factors affecting the non-participation of rural women in production activity. The Bartlett test value (3848.876 )and KMO test (0.09) showed that the data were suitable for factor analysis. The results also indicated that five factors generally explained the %51 of the rural women's non participation in productive activities obstacles and problems.The factors were respectively, social structure, cultural structure, economic barriers, educational barriers and agricultural lands structure.
ملخص الجهاز:
Furthermore, this research is of the applied type and descriptive in nature; based on the obtained results, rural women are at an intermediate level in terms of social characteristics (social participation and social status).
Keywords: rural women, cultural barriers, social barriers, agricultural production * Islamic Azad University, Shushtar Branch, Master's student in Agricultural Management (Corresponding Author) ** Assistant Professor, Islamic Azad University, Shushtar Branch, Department of Agriculture, Iran *** Assistant Professor, Islamic Azad University, Rasht Branch, Department of Agriculture, Iran Introduction Women play a major role in economic activities on a global scale, but their economic activity in developing countries and, most importantly, in the rural areas of these societies, takes a different form.
1 that social and cultural barriers are the most important factors affecting the participation of rural women in agricultural productive activities.
Table (4) - Frequency distribution of the studied potato-working women according to social participation items (Refer to page image) The findings in Table number 4 showed that based on the responses to the items, 1.
Discussion and Conclusion The results of the present research showed that social and cultural obstacles are the most important factors in the lack of participation of rural women in agricultural productive activities.
According to the present finding, it can be inferred that since the role of productive employment in the dynamism of women, especially rural women, is undeniable and this dynamism has a direct impact on the development of society, in societies where women's participation in the field of employment and economic activities is greater, social welfare is also higher.
On the other hand, based on the findings of the present research, one of the main and fundamental obstacles to the productivity of rural women is the cultural factor.
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