Estimating the amount of women's participation influenced from social capital in rural areas (Case Study: Darzab Dehastan of Mashhad County)

Women's participation process within transformation trend in rural communities in Iran has gain an increased trend in recent years. Contributions are expected to be increased with an increase in the level of social capital in these areas of rural community. In this paper an attempt has been made to study the influence the amount of social capital formation on the process of women's participation in various activities in rural areas. Research method here is descriptive-analytical in which the main part of the data collection is based on field studies of area. Statistical population of 1315 households with 250 households as the Cochrane and systematic random sampling method is selected. Study findings, based on the results of multiple regression test show highly variable impact of social capital on rural women's participation of 0.610 which indicates moderate positive effect of social capital is on the contributions of rural women. Social capital formation has had most influence on rate of participation of women in various villages, so that it explains alone a 38.8 percent of the partnership changes. On the other hand, the strong relationship exists between social capital and participation in various villages in the area there. Considering the results, solutions including investment in rural economic affairs, education, rural women and girls, formed the database for the identification capabilities of rural women toward promoting awareness of rights and benefits of their abilities and talents through participation in community education and mass media etc. are proposed.