%0 Journal Article %T A pathology of the challenges and problems of girls in rural communities (Case study: Mahidasht Region of Kermanshah County) %J Woman in Development & Politics %I Center for women's and family Studies ,University of Tehran %Z 2538-3124 %A Rostami, Farahnaz %A Sahraee, Mariyeh %A Maleki, Tahere %A Sasani, Fatemeh %A Shahmoradi, Mahna %D 2014 %\ 12/22/2014 %V 12 %N 4 %P 489-506 %! A pathology of the challenges and problems of girls in rural communities (Case study: Mahidasht Region of Kermanshah County) %K factor analysis %K Mahidasht Reign %K pathology %K rural girls %R 10.22059/jwdp.2014.54531 %X Human resources development is a key factor and a pre-requisite for achieving sustainable rural development. Therefore, it is necessary to pay attention to rural women and girls, as half of the human resource potential of rural communities.Women and girls form an important part of society toward rural sustainability development because of their role as future mothers. So, improving their situation leads to improve the situation of rural communities in the future. Also, it is crucial to solve their problems to achieve sustainable growth and development in these communities. Therefore, pathology of the challenges and problems of girls in the rural communities is the main concern of the current study. A total of 3600 girls (N=3600) in Mahdasht reign were selected based on simple random sampling (n= 132), among ten villages by assigning appropriate method. Research instrument was a questionnaire the reliability of which was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha coefficients (α= 0.7). Factor analysis was used to analyze the data. Research findings indicated five factors including psychological trauma, less education– welfare, social pathologies, economic– health poverty and the girls facing challenges in the marriage, to form 65.53 percent of total variance of girls' problems.     %U https://jwdp.ut.ac.ir/article_54531_5731dbd45d1ed20f4043e29204a5ffe5.pdf