Investigating the Effect of Assets on the Sustainability of Rural Women's Livelihood in Gachsaran City

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 PhD, Department of Agricultural Management and Development, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

2 Associate Professor, Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Faculty of Urban Planning, Central Tehran Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

3 Expert in the Center for Rural Development Studies, Natural Disasters Research Institute, Tehran, Iran.

4 PhD Student, Department of Human Geography, Faculty of Geography, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

the current research was conducted to analyze and investigate the impact of livelihood assets on the sustainability of rural women's livelihood in Gachsaran City. Analysis and investigation of the effect of the effective factors on the livelihood of the rural women in Gachsaran City. The statistical population of the research included 500 rural women randomly in Gachsaran City, of which 139 were selected and surveyed by simple random method. The data collection tool was a questionnaire. The validity of the research tool was confirmed by the professors of the University of Tehran's promotion and development department and subject experts, and its reliability was calculated and confirmed using Cronbach's alpha test during the distribution of 30 questionnaires in the pre-test stage. LISREL 8.8 and SPSS 26 software were used to perform statistical tests. Also, to investigate the impact of livelihood assets on the sustainability of rural women's livelihood, it was done using the structural equation modeling method with the help of Lisrel 8.8 software. The results showed that the independent variables studied (five capitals) were able to explain 60.13 percent of the variance of the dependent variable, i.e. sustainable livelihood of rural women in Gachsaran City. Also, the goodness of fit indices showed that the structural model of the research has a good and acceptable fit. In addition, the human capital index (λ = 0.61) was assigned the first importance and priority for measuring the sustainable livelihood of rural women. Based on this, among the solutions to improve the livelihood of rural women are: 1) Organizations and other planning and policy-making officials pay due attention to the activities of rural women and improve the field of improving their livelihood according to the existing conditions. 2) In order to help poor and vulnerable rural women and families, they can act by providing appropriate financial assistance, such as setting up rural micro-funds.

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Journal of Rural Research
Volume 14, Issue 3
December 2023
Pages 554-569

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  • Receive Date: 26 June 2023
  • Revise Date: 13 September 2023
  • Accept Date: 24 September 2023

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