economics
Negin Fallah Haghighi; Zeinab Sharifi; Hamin Ahmadi
Abstract
Nowadays, economic development is unattainable without the participation of women in the workforce. Nevertheless, the economic participation rate of women in Iran is not in favorable level. Based on the most recent statistics, Yazd province has the second highest female unemployment rate. Therefore, ...
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Nowadays, economic development is unattainable without the participation of women in the workforce. Nevertheless, the economic participation rate of women in Iran is not in favorable level. Based on the most recent statistics, Yazd province has the second highest female unemployment rate. Therefore, this research aimed at analyzing the barriers to women’s economic participation in Yazd Province. In this investigation, qualitative research methods were implemented. The investigation focused on selected groups in Yazd province. Sampling was conducted purposefully and continued until theoretical saturation was reached. Instruments for data collection included interviews and observations. To ensure the accuracy and dependability of the data, the researcher collected information through a variety of means, including document reviews, interviews, video and photo recordings, and audio recordings. Coding was utilized in the data analysis process. The results showed that in the first step, 19 main concepts were extracted in open coding. During the second step, axial coding was performed on a set of nineteen concepts (open coding). From this set, three subcategories were identified: “the attitude towards the role of women in the business environment,” “the exploitation of women’s labor force”, “the individual, family, and cultural effects of women’s employment.” The discourse concluded with a depiction of the paradigm model, which comprised causal conditions, contextual conditions, consequences, intervening conditions, and strategies. Some suggestions, based on the findings, were recommended in order to increase women’s economic participation.
Women's Studies
soheili sadeghi fasai; Zahra Mirhosseini
Abstract
Prison life experience is different despites individual differences, family, social and criminal prisoners, conditions and characteristics of them. This study was qualitative research findings from in-depth interviews with 20 women after releasing from prison. The prison puts women in a particular subject ...
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Prison life experience is different despites individual differences, family, social and criminal prisoners, conditions and characteristics of them. This study was qualitative research findings from in-depth interviews with 20 women after releasing from prison. The prison puts women in a particular subject and very serious consequences for their marks. The vast majority of women are considered to be negative consequences, such as family and social exclusion, away from children and confinement effects on their learning and criminality in prison. However, the women said causing mass imprisonment positive effects such as cutting off communications networks and separating from a criminal record, vocational skills training, such as in prison and also to follow. All women- regardless of the crime, the prison context, power and violence- know that the person is connected to the outside world and sees punishment.
Women's Studies
Reza Ahmadi Kahnali; Mohammad Reza Behboudi; Tahere Jamjoor
Abstract
The recent increasing number of women in organizations has not been associated with their appropriate positions. Therefore, potential capacity of half of active workforce is not utilized fully in managerial positions for organizational success. This study investigates why women are less likely to achieve ...
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The recent increasing number of women in organizations has not been associated with their appropriate positions. Therefore, potential capacity of half of active workforce is not utilized fully in managerial positions for organizational success. This study investigates why women are less likely to achieve higher positions in organizations .The study identifies barriers of women's access to managerial positions through a qualitative research methods. The data are collected through in-depth and semi-structured interviews with female executives of governmental organizations located in Bandar Abbas. Qualitative data have been analyzed according to Colaizzi’s seven stages process with MAX QDA software. The results show that four categories of barriers including personal barriers (14 items including marriage and children, lack of support from family and husband, etc.), organizational barriers (19 items including negative mindset and viewpoint of decisions makers and managers, preference of men to women in equal conditions, etc.), social barriers (4 items including social culture and men-dominant culture, lack of believing the competency of women, etc.), and Legal barriers (5 items including pregnancy-leave law, obedience of wife from husband, etc.), are the main obstacles of women for achieving higher managerial positions in Iranian organizations. At the end, the study proposed some practical solutions such as identifying and introducing successful women mangers to overcome the obstacles.
Nashmil Afshar zade; Abdolhamid pap zan
Volume 9, Issue 4 , March 2012, , Pages 115-133
Abstract
In recent years sustainable development has been one of the concerns of man. To address this concern farming sustainable development will be one of the most important issues which must be dealt with. It seems that one of the necessary elements to further this goal is to have a serious look at indigenous ...
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In recent years sustainable development has been one of the concerns of man. To address this concern farming sustainable development will be one of the most important issues which must be dealt with. It seems that one of the necessary elements to further this goal is to have a serious look at indigenous knowledge of farming and particularly women’s knowledge. Women and above all nomad women have admirable indigenous knowledge of farming: dairy farming, and dairy products which is worth of being registered and preserved because it can be practiced to provide food and sustainable development as humanitarian development.
This qualitative study was conducted to detect and document the indigenous knowledge of migrant women of Kalhor tribe about dairy farming. Geographical area was Gilan-e-Gharb Township, Kermanshah province. Focus Groups technique was employed to collect data. Purposive sampling was used and the collected data was analyzed through content analysis. The results show that nomad women have impressive knowledge of farm animal nourishment, veterinary, producing dairy and non dairy products returnable to the nature and by learning this knowledge we can have a step forward to sustainable farming.
