Path Analysis of Gender Inequality Among Rural Women in Golestan Province, Iran
Journal Title: International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Invention - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 1
Abstract
The gender inequality is one of the subjects that had been always accompanied to the humans from long times ago. The gender inequality is composed of prejudgment, ideology, and approaches which assume the females as subordinates and less valuable than the males and consider the males as dominant to the females. Similarly, it is the tendency to respect for a gender while it disdains the other gender. The current research analyzes the path of gender inequality between the rural females in Golestan Province of Iran. This study is a descriptive- correlational type of research. The statistical population of the study includes all rural females in Golestan Province where they were chosen using Krejccie and Morgan sample size table and through a stratified random sampling method with proportional attribution technique. 384 rural females as sample size between the rural households of the given province. The tool was a questionnaire including; individual characteristics, empowerment, social capital and gender inequality variables. The validity of this questionnaire was verified using a panel of academic staff in the field of agricultural extension and education from Tarbiat Modarres University in Iran. The values of Cronbach alpha coefficient was computed ranging from 0.62 to 0.77. Based on the results of path analysis, empowerment variable have the highest role in gender inequality. The causal model of the study is composed of ten variables including, amount of saving, total income of women, annual income, family members with higher than diploma educational degree, level of father education, number of family members, age, empowerment and social capital. These variables totally interpret 14 percent of the variance of the dependent variable.
Authors and Affiliations
Narges yakhkeshi, Homayoun Farhadian, Akram Ghadimi
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