investigating factors related to rural womens’ participation in family poultry activities in maragheh county

production of family poultry is one of the activities which women in the villages participate and several factors effect on their participation in these activities. the purpose of this descriptive- correlational study was to investigate factors related to the participation level of rural women in family poultry activities. the statistical population consisted all rural households in maragheh county (n=22564) which 224 of them were selected based on cochran sampling formula and using multi-stage randomized sampling method. the research tool was a researcher-constructed questionnaire whose validity verified by a panel of experts in the related field and to check its reliability. a pretest conducted and cronbach's alpha coefficient were higher than 0.7 for different parts of the questionnaire. the results showed that all family members are involved in family poultry activities, but the participation of women was higher than other family members. on average, women participated 77.35 percent in activities and incubator related activity and nesting activities had lower and higher rate of participation, respectively. the participation level of women had a negative meaningful correlation with their age, education, husband's education, households’ numbers, the size of poultry folk and their knowledge but a positive meaningful correlation with their attitudes and women's share of income gaining from poultry and products selling.