چکیده:
Participation is a process in which people involved to make endeavors aiming at a common
goal; and they do this actively, freely with awareness and accountability. Women
participation as one of the principles for development can be studied from different
perspectives. The objective of the present study is to investigate social and cultural factors
influencing social participation of rural women in the developmental process.
The theories of experts in modernism domain in general and feminism theories like
liberal feminism in particular, are theoretical bases of this study.
This research was conducted through interviews (during October 2002 to May 2003) in
one of the villages of Azerbaijan Sharghi province; where 155 women with the average of
15-60 were selected as subjects whose answers were then analyzed.
The average rate of social participation of rural women based on this research is shown
to be low and only 4 percent of respondents had a high participation rate.
Their type of participation was mainly traditional and religious including participation in
birth anniversary, religious get-to-gether and health houses; it in fact manifests a kind of
passive participation. However, based on the data there was a correlation between the social
participation of rural women and variables relevant to women’s attitude and self-concept
(internal factors), age, education (background factors), their access level to urban centers,
and the media (structural factors).
خلاصه ماشینی:
However, based on the data there was a correlation between the social participation of rural women and variables relevant to women's attitude and self-concept (internal factors), age, education (background factors), their access level to urban centers, and the media (structural factors).
The variables like decision-making strength, one's self-concept and attitude toward her own capabilities and qualities, access to urban centers, media and education, social-economic classification are all factors placing impact on the social participation of women.
Based on the required hypotheses in this research, there seems to be a positive and direct correlation between the social participation of rural women and their decision-making ability based on free will, marital status, age, their self-concept and inward attitude, access to urban centers, media, education, and social economic status of their families.
Table 5 The Coefficient Correlation of the Variable of the Level of Access to the Media and the Social Participation Variable (View the image of this page) Regression Analysis of Data To measure the relation between independent and the dependent variables, the impact of a group of variables on the dependent is taken into account.
Table 10 The Relative Impact of Social-Economic Variables on the Variable of one's Inward Attitude Toward her Eligibility (View the image of this page) The simple regression equation obtained is: Y (decision-making based on free will)= 45.