Abstract
The purpose of this study is to investigate the factors affecting the employment-oriented empowerment of rural female heads of households in Ilam. In terms of monitoring and degree of control, this is field research and in terms of method of obtaining facts and data processing, it is a survey study and in terms of data collection, it is descriptive-correlational. The statistical population of this study is 14156 rural female heads of households in Ilam. The sample size was set for 374 people using Krejcie and Morgan Table. In this study, due to having a list of the names of all women studied, a systematic sampling method was used. The data collection tool in this study was a researcher-made questionnaire whose face validity and content validity were provided through a panel of experts. The reliability of the questionnaire was also confirmed by Cronbach's alpha. The results of regression analysis showed that the variables of psychological dimension, social dimension, cultural dimension, and the technical dimension of professional competencies have the greatest impact on the empowerment of rural women and in other words, explain 52% of the changes in the empowerment variable of women.
Highlights
Women make up about half of the country's population
The purpose of this study is to investigate the factors affecting the employment-oriented empowerment of rural female heads of households in Ilam
The factors affecting the employment-oriented empowerment of rural female heads of households in Ilam were investigated
Summary
Women make up about half of the country's population. only a small number of them are employed and earn a living. Statistics announced by the Statistics Center of Iran in 2016 show that male unemployment this year was 10.3 and female unemployment was 20.3 (Statistical Yearbook, 2016). This can be a threat or a good opportunity for progress. The threat is that if this population remains unemployed, the country's economy will suffer a lot. In this sense, this issue can be an opportunity only if the country uses this large workforce, it will achieve very high economic growth. The only necessary condition for success and achievement of economic, political, cultural, and social goals has been the correct and optimal use of human resources and their thinking power, and one of the important indicators for measuring the development of any country is the employment status of women and their participation in different fields
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