Social And Cultural Barriers The Most Important Factors In Rural Women's Non Participation In Productive Activities (Case Study Of Shushtar Suburb Rural Women Potatoes Farmers)

Subject Areas : Economy

S. S. Mosavi ¹ , A. R. Omani ² , M. S. Alahyari ³

1 - M.A student in Agricultural Management, Department of Agriculture, Shushatar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shushatar, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Agriculture, Shushatar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shushatar, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Agriculture, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran

Received: 2011-02-24 Accepted : 2011-05-30 Published : 2010-09-23

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Abstract :

The main goal of this research was to study participation barriers of rural women in agricultural production activities. The type of the study was an applied research. To determine the barriers of rural women's participation descriptive and factor analysis techniques were implemented as well. The Sample included 288 rural women that were selected by incidental sampling procedure( with in reach). Based on the resulted outcome the rural women, retained an average level in terms of  social features (social participation and social status). More use of factor analysis techniques determined the  factors affecting the non-participation of rural women in production activity. The Bartlett test value (3848.876  )and KMO test (0.09) showed that the data were suitable for factor analysis. The results also indicated that five factors generally explained the  %51 of the rural women's non participation in productive activities obstacles and problems.The  factors  were respectively, social structure, cultural structure, economic barriers, educational barriers and agricultural lands structure.