Women's Social Demands and the Relation of Lifestyle and Social Capital with Them (Case of Study: Women of Qazvin City)

Implications of the current Iranian society require informed, active and hardworking women who with their presence in various arenas can become eligible petitioners to claim their rights and actively display citizenship with knowledge, rational commitment, civil behaviors, participation, and sense of national belonging and identity. Meanwhile, factors such as social capital and lifestyle can influence the nature and type of women's social demands, which identification of this relationship has the great theoretical and practical importance. According to this necessity, the present study has reviewed their social demands by three economic, legal and cultural approaches by conducting survey among 386 women aged 20-55 in Qazvin city. The findings showed that the level of social capital among the studied women is low and the dominant lifestyle among them is modern. Meanwhile, demands with the economic approach were most prevalent and demands with the legal approach were the least prevalent among women. While social capital is more influential on women's social demands than lifestyle, these two variables have been able to explain 14.5% of the variance of women's social demands.