Facilitating and Impeding Factors in Rural Women Economic Enablement (Case study: Hamedan County)

This study was undertaken with the aim to determine the facilitating and preventing factors in economic Enablement of rural women. In this descriptive cross-sectional study, 256 rural women in Hamedan County were selected through stratified sampling method. Researchers made questionnaire including questions about facilitating and preventing economic empowerment factors. Validity of the questionnaire was examined by a panel of rural development Experts, rural women and Tehran university professors. Using Cronbach’s-alpha formula, the reliability of questionnaire assessed (?=0.81). Data analysis was performed using Factor analysis. The result of factor on obstacles in economic empowering revealed that four factors determined about 51.60 percent (personal-psychological, economic participation, infrastructure and socio-institutional) of variation of the role of economic empowering of rural women. In addition, three factors facility economic empowering (economic participation, family consolidation and social participation and awareness) determined about 55.87 percent of variation of obstacles of economic empowerment of rural women.