The Role of Occupational Capability in the Self-reliance of Rural Women in Ilam County

The present study aimed to analyze the role of rural women’s vocational capability on their self-reliance. The statistical population comprised all employed rural women of Ilam County, including 1088 women, of them, 283 participants were recruited by proportional stratified random sampling using Cochran’s formula. The questionnaire’s content and face validity was confirmed by a panel of experts and its reliability was estimated to be 93.7% by Cronbach α test. The obtained data were descriptively analyzed by mean, frequency, frequency percentage, standard deviation, and coefficient of variations, also they were inferentially analyzed by Pearson correlation, Kruskal-Wallis, Mann-Whitney test, and step-wise multiple regression analysis using SPSS version 22. Thus, the variables of technical skills and manual dexterity, creativity and problem-solving skills, technical knowledge, age, and income explain 57.7% of the variance of dependent variable. Thus, technical knowledge had the most important role and age the least important role in determining self-reliance.