Factors that Affect Developing Women Entrepreneurship in Gilan

Subject Areas : Iranian Sociological Review

Shahrbanoo Rafiei ¹ (Ph.D. Student of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran)
Soroush Fathi ² (Associate Professor of Sociology, , West Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran)
Tahmuros Shiri ³ (Associate Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran)

Received: 2021-08-10 Accepted : 2021-08-10 Published : 2021-06-01

Keywords: Entrepreneurship, development, Social contexts, cultural contexts, women's empowerment,

Abstract :

Each society requires a comprehension, sociability, and acculturation of the concept of development in its components and columns by emerging and training of human resources stemming from the theme of that society to achieve sustainable, balanced, and humane development and also the dynamism and crystallization of the concept of development demand justice and equality of social groups in distributing material and spiritual resources. Also, it is remarkably necessary to pay attention to women and empowering them as one of the central agents that play a role in sustainable development to provide a business environment and its development and can stimulate society towards superiority, considering the human resources capabilities and creating possibilities to develop the business and eliminating its limitations will begin to economic growth and development of society. Hence, this paper aims to study the factors influencing the development of women entrepreneurship in Gilan, and this study has been conducted by survey method. 390 female entrepreneurs were determined as the sample size based on Cochran's formula, and samples were provided by the method of simple random sampling, and samples also were questioned. The results obtained by multiple regression analysis concerning the effect of independent variables on entrepreneurship development present that: managerial and network factors with an influence of 0.759 have the highest influence on entrepreneurship development, and in the next step, a technological factor with 0.483, an economic factor with 0.384, individual-personality factors with 0.366 and environmental factors with 0.28, and cultural and social factors with 0.154 affect the dependent variable of entrepreneurship development, respectively. Generally, the mentioned factors explain 49% of the variance changes in the entrepreneurship variable.