Study of the Perception of Gender Inequality in Women's Lived Experience in Maragheh

The purpose of this study was to study the perception of genderinequality in Maragheh women's lived experience. The research methodis a combination of survey and phenomenology. The research methodwas qualitative in-depth interviews with semi-structured questions and inthe quantitative section by using a self-made questionnaire. In-depthinterviews were conducted in winter 1394 with 23 women above18 yearsold in Maragheh, and questionnaires were administered in autumn 1395.The statistical population of Maragheh women aged 18-79 years was61142 and the sample size was 420 women using Cochran formula.Theoretical sampling method was used for qualitative and two-stagecluster sampling method was used for quantitative method. Cronbach'salpha coefficient for all variables was higher than 0.7 in the quantitativepart. The results of the regression test show that, socio-cultural factorscan predict 32.2% of the variance of the dependent variable and thecorrelation between the values predicted by the equation is 0.567. Amongthe factors, the highest standard coefficient of influence was 0.314 forcultural capital and the lowest coefficient for social equality and bodymanagement was 0.004.