Role of Economic Growth in Women's Participation for Selected Asian Countries

Subject Areas : Sociology

فاطمه Zandi ¹ ( Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Faculty Member, Islamic Azad University, South Branch, Tehran, Iran. )
مرجان Damankeshideh ² ( Assistant Professor, Department of Economics ,Islamic Azad University, Center Branch, Tehran, Iran. )
نیلوفر Moradhassel ³ ( Assistant Professor, Department of Economics ,Islamic Azad University, Center Branch, Tehran, Iran. )

Received: 2012-01-04 Accepted : 2012-05-28 Published : 2012-03-20

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Abstract :

Today, due to the economic development and mechanization of production, physical or bodily capacities would not contribute to the development of countries. On the contrary, in many societies women have played a major role in the magnificent growth of economies of their countries, so that from a modern point of view, and for many of the new economics, it is not the sexuality but participation of individuals-disregarding sexuality factor- that determines the merits of women and men. During recent decades the study of the effects of economic and non- economic variables on women activities, has been the agenda of researchers, from which we can point up the effect of economic growth on women’s activities. This was carried out for the first time in 1981 by War. The main point here is that fundamentally, in the early stages of economic growth, the relation between women activities and the economic growth has been negative, but the relation becomes positive for later stages of economic growth. This study tried to test the effect of economic growth on the index of women's participation for selected Asian countries which have different income groups (including Iran). This would be done using the method of Panel data. It was shown that the improvement of two indices: life expectancy and literacy for women would increase the rate of women’s participation. The results showed that there was a U-form relation between women's participation and economic growth.

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