چکیده:
Abstract Human development and the importance of focusing on women’s participation has become one of the main concerns and issues attracting the attention of many people. In fact, many gender-related models and patterns have been proposed in this regard. Accordingly, this paper is an attempt to evaluate the effects of development process on women’s participation in Iran using an econometrics method (OLS), and to show the impact of economic, social and cultural development from 1985 to 2004 on the employment of Iranian women. The results of this study show that during this period, socio-cultural development had a positive effect on female employment while economic development had a negative impact.
خلاصه ماشینی:
"Accordingly, this paper is an attempt to evaluate the effects of development process on women’s participation in Iran using an econometrics method (OLS), and to show the impact of economic, social and cultural development from 1985 to 2004 on the employment of Iranian women.
The appropriate related patterns in this study include: LF = f (LY, LB, LEDU, LBO, LT, W) LF: level of female employment LY: growth rate of national income LB: growth rate of social security index LEDU: growth rate of higher education LBO: growth rate of book reading LT: growth rate of radio and television broadcasting W: virtual variable representing the time of war (against Iraq) which takes 1 in years of war and 0 during peace.
Since the effects of these two variables (social security index and higher education index) are considered, it shows that Iran has good social development conditions, subse- quently the women’s rate of participation increases proportionally.
Therefore, according to the findings of this study, the followings are recommended: considering the positive effect of the social development indices (growth rates of social security and higher education)and the cultural development indices (growth rates of book readers and radio and television programs users on the dependent variable of this study (female employment), it is recommended that statesmen take cultural and social development as the key to their success in the moves forward towards human development.
As shown in this study, economic development has a negative impact on female employment in Iran, thus, the government should be determined to educate people culturally about the important role women play in economic growth."