Aim:This study was aimed to explore and describe the Kurdish women's perception of cervical cancer screening. Methods: A qualitative design based on a conventional content analysis approach. Purposive sampling was applied to 19 women chosen, who had a Pap smear or refused to have one. The study was performed in the Kurdistan Region, Iraq. Semi-structure din-depth individual interviews were carr...

in recent centuries, women were provided with the proper space to be active in social, political, economical, cultural, intellectual and literary areas. therefore, they have done valuable activities and helped their countries to achieve increasing growth and manage fundamental changes. in this regard, the lebanese women have been active, despite all difficulties they have encountered. they try ...

unmet needs show the gap between ideals and reproductive behavior of women. this article aims to evaluate and examine the determinants of the need among married kurdish women of 15-49 in mahabad. this research was conducted through the data of fertility survey in march 2012, in mahabad with a sample size of 700 families. according to the results the rates of unmet needs for birth intervals and ...

nowadays, women's participation in rural sustainable development is not considered as an optional issue, but a necessity. the societies downgrading the need for women's participation have faced failures, cuausing delay in sustainable development and the meeting of social security as well as social welfare. this applied research was aimed at clarifying the role of rural women's pa...

in today's world, women's participation in social activities is considered as a measure of their social and civil rights. however, there are challenges to such participation. this research aims to investigate these socio-cultural obstacles, comparing athletic and non-athletic women. the present study examines women's sports participation as a form of behavior which includes fishb...