Abstract:
Purpose: The role of women in society is always important from a cultural perspective. Therefore, the current research was conducted with the aim of presenting a women's cultural development model with using structural equation modeling.
Methodology: The current research in terms of time was cross-sectional, in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was qualitative. The research community was the women experts of the cultural domain of Tehran province, which based on the Krejcie and Morgan table number of 384 people of them were selected as a sample by cluster sampling method. The research tools were the demographic information form and researcher-made questionnaire of women's cultural development (91 items), whose face validity was confirmed by the opinion of experts and its reliability was obtained by Cronbach's alpha method 0.76. The data were analyzed by exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modeling methods in SPSS and AMOS software.
Findings: The findings of the exploratory factor analysis showed that in the women's cultural development model, causal factors include components of individual, political, economic, technological, social, legal and environmental, background factors include components of skill, knowledge management and self-confidence, intervening factors include components of supports and women's management, central phenomenon include component of cultural development, strategies include components of planning, organization, control and human resources, and consequences include components of cultural change management, improving the status of women and women empowering and the factor load and average variance extracted of all was higher than 0.50 and the reliability of all of them with Cronbach's alpha and combined methods was higher than 0.70. Also, the findings of structural equation modeling showed that the women's cultural development model had a good fit and in the mentioned model, each of the components had a significant effect on the related dimensions and the dimensions on each other (P
Conclusion: According to the women's cultural development model in the present study, in order to improve women's cultural development can be used all the identified effective components.