porpuse: this study aims to identify factors affecting rural women's participation in educational- extension programs of the jihad- agriculture service centers in amol township, in order to be able to take positive steps in facilitating and accelerating the process of rural and agricultural development, as the result of the improvement in their level of participation. methodology: considering t...

The general purpose of this article is to identify the influencing factors on rural women participation inagricultural extension programs in Mazandaran Province. Therefore, using multi-stage sampling, 300 ruralwomen were selected randomly. The research instrument was a semi-structured questionnaire. Results showthat rural women participation in agricultural extension programs is at average leve...

introduction social trust is an important issue in development matter. it is a new mater and concept in development in general and rural development in particular. dimensions of social trust are the most important purpose for bi-lateral and multi-lateral behaviors. people trust to each other to make relation and through this way they learnt that without participation and cooperation they cannot...

the main purpose of this survey was to identify and analyze the barriers in women’s economic participation in the rural regions of the zanjan province. the study was an analytical- explanatory research regarding its method. the statistical population of the study were consisted of all the rural women in the abhar-rod rural district (n= 1300). according to the krejcie and morgan table, a sample ...

introduction rural women, especially in the third world countries, have a major role in the economic, social and cultural activities. check the status of women in the developing countries 52 represents the fact that women over 40% of agricultural activities are doing with respect to the axis of the nature of the agricultural activities in the economic development of iran, and the role of rural ...

there is no single sociological theory which can explain the full extent of women's social participation in the developing countries. an analytical framework is developed to serve the objectives of the research. this article presents a summary of most important findings on the types and intensity of women's social participation in the city of tehran. factors related to their social pa...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have reported that older people's social participation has positive effects on their health. However, some studies showed that the impacts of social participation on health differ by gender. We sought to examine whether the effects of social participation on mental health differ for men and women in a Japanese population. We also examined the moderating influence of ...