Investigating Social-economical Factors related to Women Political Participation

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• L. Nikpoor Ghanvati
• M. Moeini
• H. Ahmadi

Abstract

The quality of women participation in political activities is affected by social, economical, political, historical structures, and ideological bases of social relations. Although, women have dual roles in production and reproduction constituency, their participation has not been deemed important in formal political structure and its processes, where decisions are made by men and women attending to production social sources . Therefore, investigating their status in politics, entails taking into account the totality of the system and social structure and stability of the structural relations. A use was made of a questionnaire in this survey. This study included all women above 18 in Borazjan as the study population. Out of this population 273 respondents were sampled using simple random sampling strategy. The face validity and reliability (Cronbach’s’ alpha=0.86) of the instrument was assessed. Pearson correlation and ANOVA were performed to examine the hypotheses and regression analysis to evaluate the model. The results of research indicated that there was a significant relationship between the place of birth, education, job, social class, religion, income, using mass media, political family, political friends, and interest in political activity and women’s political participation. However, there was no significant relationship between age, marital status, ethnicity and their political participation. Multiple regression analysis further revealed that religion, political friends, interest in political activity, using mass media and education could account for 47% of the variance in the dependant variable
 

Keywords

• Political Participation
• Social Class
• Women
• Structural Relations
• Borazjan

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