Identify the challenges facing women working in industry; Case study of women working in Aran and Bidgol industrial towns

Subject Areas : Human Resources Excellence

Fatemeh Deldadeh Arani ¹ , sayyed mohammad reza davoodi ²

1 - PhD Student in Entrepreneurship, Higher Education, Dehaghan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Dehaghan, Iran.
2 - department of management

Received: 2021-05-05 Accepted : 2021-09-11 Published : 2021-09-21

Keywords: Industry, women', s employment, social barriers to employment, family barriers to employment, individual barriers to employment,

Abstract :

Women's employment is one of the effective levers in their development and social participation, but the existence of some barriers to women's employment and their economic activity outside the family environment has limited their employment. The purpose of this study is to identify the challenges facing women working in the field of industry in the industrial towns of Aran and Bidgol. In other words, the main question of the present study is what are the challenges and obstacles facing women working in the field of industry? The dominant approach to this qualitative research is the content analysis method, in-depth interview data collection technique, and semi-structured interview data collection tools. The statistical population of this study is all women working in Aran and Bidgol industrial towns, whose number is 34078 and The sample size was adopted by the snowball method and also based on the saturation rule, which in the end 32 people were considered as the sample size. The research data were analyzed by the content analysis method.Findings: The findings showed that the most important barriers to the interviewees' response were individual barriers, family barriers, and social barriers, each of which has sub-themes.A) Personal barriers 1. Dissatisfaction with the job 2. Psychological problems.B) Family barriers, 1. Communication with spouse 2. Communication with children 3. Communication with others.C) Social barriers 1. Educational problems. 2. Problems of work environment 3. Problems of a community environment.