Abstract
This study aimed at investigating Al Balqa' Applied University Students attitude towards Jordanian woman's political participation in parliamentary elections. Researchers used a questionnaire in order to obtain needed data for the study. The sample of the study consisted of (1327) male and female students (589 male) and (738 female) students.
 
 The study posed the following questions:
 
 1) What are the attitudes of Al-Balqa Applied University students towards woman’s participation in politics in Jordan?
 
 2) Are there any statistically significant differences due to gender, college education level, and residency variables?
 
 In order to achieve the study's objectives, researchers used various statistical analyses, such as averages account, triple t - test, and Shiva posteriori comparisons. The study reached the following results:
 
 1) Students attitude towards woman’s political participation in all questionnaire items were medium with means of (3.68).
 
 2) The paragraph that read "woman better able to understand the status of woman" comes in the first place with means of (4.35), and the paragraph that reads "woman’s participation in parliamentary elections increases herself confidence" came in second place with means of (4.17), and The paragraph that reads I support the election of a woman who has high education and culture came in third place with means of (4.14), while the paragraph that reads "woman is well qualified physically and intellectually for political participation" came in the last place, with means of (3.06).
 
 There is statistically significant differences due to gender variable in favor of female student.
 
 There is no statistically significant difference due to residency; there are statistically significant differences due to study level in favor of fourth year students.
 
 There are no statistically significant differences due to college type. Recommendations are expressed.
Highlights
The political participation of a woman is a central part in the democratic process, an indication of the level of progress made in the political process, a condition of citizenship and entrench human rights and her role in public and private life. (Al-Anzi, 2008)
4.1 The discussion of the results relating to the first question: What are the trends of the Al-Balqa Applied University Students towards woman's political participation in the parliamentary elections?
3) Ranked third,item, which reads "I support the election of a woman who has high education and In students' attitudes towards political participation came in the third item, and perhaps researchers attribute this to the importance of culture and the role of a woman as participants in the political programs as the culture for a woman gives her the power of expression and opinion, and the ability to dialogue, and the researchers can refer to the nature of the change in Jordanian society, as the Jordanian society is well educated, aware and conscious is reflected on the attitudes of the study sample to focus on the importance of education and culture for a woman as a political participants
Summary
The political participation of a woman is a central part in the democratic process, an indication of the level of progress made in the political process, a condition of citizenship and entrench human rights and her role in public and private life. (Al-Anzi, 2008). The Jordanian Constitution indicates the principle of equality between man and woman, and pledges to protect it during the work and ensures her of personal freedom and gives her the right to political participation. Given the importance of a woman’s participation in the political process in which she constitutes one-half of the society, and has a key role in the development process. This study came to discuss this vital and important subject for Jordanian woman and society as a whole. Woman in the Jordanian society is almost one-half of the population, her large participation in elections, and despite the progress made in the field of education, employment and access to decision-making positions, she is still unable to reach clearly and concretely places of decision-making. This study came to identify the trends of Al-Balqa' Applied University students towards woman's participation in the parliamentary elections
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