Empowering of Women Headed Family with Regards to Policy Making (An Emphasis on 4th, 5th and 6th Development Plans)

This article is going to discover and explain policies of 4th, 5th and 6th development plans on the empowering of women headed family. Divorced women, widows, single and married women who their husbands are not able to work, are meant by women headed family. To empower this group of women necessitate to consider two factors: advancement and women’s agency. The main question is examining of two factors within development plans for empowering women headed family. Findings of the research based on qualitative content analysis method are presenting that development plans have not been effective in enhancing women's empowerment in the area of access to resources and presence in social networks and markets. It only limited to financial support and in some context social support. This kind of policy would not lead to reduce women’s poverty in the long run.