The Influence of Home based Businesses on Rural Women's Social Empowerment

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• H. S
• S. J
• A. Y

Abstract

The main purpose of this study was to investigate the Influence of home based businesses on rural women's social empowerment. The research method was a survey and data were collected by a questionnaire and an interview. Statistical population included 265 rural women with home based business in the county of Islamabad-Qarb. The sample size consisted of 161 subjects from these rural women selected by Cochran's formula and a random sampling method. Data were collected by a structured questionnaire and an interview whose validity was verified by a group of professors and experts. The reliability of the questions were tested during a pre-test process by using a Cronbach's alpha test and it was 0.92 (α=0.92). These showed a high potential research tool for gathering information. SPSS for statistical tests and LISREL for Goodness of Fit Tests and Structural Equation Modeling were used. The results of paper showed a good and expected fitness level of the structural equation model for the rural women's empowerment. Moreover, research findings indicated that the social empowerment of 63.3 % of women studied was high and there was also a significant relationship between social empowerment and type of home based businesses.

Keywords

• Islamabad- Qarb County
• Home based Business
• rural women
• Social Empowerment

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