Factor Analysis of the Effects of Tourism on the Development of Rural Women's Agriculture Employment in Boyer Ahmad County

     Rural tourism has a great potential for creating small businesses and can help develop employment. Accordingly, the purpose of this survey study was to identify the effects of tourism on the development of agriculture employment of rural women in Kakan district, Boyer-Ahmad county. The statistical population of the study included women from two villages targeted for tourism in the mentioned rural area. For this purpose, women aged 15-64 years were identified first (433 people), then according to the sampling table of Bartlett et al., 165 rural women were estimated as a sample and distributed proportionally among the two target villages. Questionnaire was the most important tool for data collection in the present study. The face validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by a panel of experts and its reliability was also confirmed by conducting a pilot study and calculating the Theta coefficient (θ = 0.50). Factor analysis was used to analyze the data. In this context, KMO test was first used to measure the internal consistency of items. Based on the obtained results, the most obvious effects of tourism on employment of rural women were classified into six factors, which explained 59.27% ​​of the total variance of the factors. These six factors were named: Productive, Economic, Capital, Service, Welfare, and Social factors. Among the categories, the largest effect was related to the productive factor which explains 22.82% of the total variance and the smallest effect is related to the Social factor, which is 4.47% of the effects. Finally, it is suggested to establish employment offices and rural tourism entrepreneurship in the Islamic Council of the target villages in order to develop the employment of rural women in a targeted manner.