RURAL WOMAN'S ROLE IN FAMILIAL DECISION MAKIN9 IN SOME VILLAGES OF KAFR El~SHEtKH GOVERNORATE I | ||||
| Journal of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences | ||||
| Article 1, Volume 28, Issue 6, June 2003, Page 4517-4528 PDF (544.02 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jaess.2003.243590 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| M. Shams EI-Dein,1; Ibtihal M. K. Hussien2 | ||||
| 1Agricultural Economic Oept., Fac. of Agric., KZlfr EI-Sheil<h, Tant UnlversiEy | ||||
| 2Agricultural Ext. and Rural Soc. Oept, Fac., of Agrlc .• Mansoua Univ | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Every social act is an exercise of power, every social relationship is a power eqlJaticn ano every social system is an organization (Ii power. There is an increasing agreement that power is a mullidimension~1 construct the late 1950s and early 1960s power became and continues to be a common and important referent in the pursuit of knowledge about structured interaction in families. Power is one construct of particular interest to family sociologist concerned with marital and family interaction. The objectives of this research is two folds, it aims first to identify rural woman's (ole in familial decision making, and the second, it aims at discoverinq the variables that determine their contribution in familial decision making. A review of relevant literature has been undertaken as a mean of developing a theoretical framework for this research. Data were collected from a snowball sample of 268 rural wives existed in Eshaka and Missie villages, Kafr EI-Sheikh. Three measures, dimensions, of wife's contribution in familial decislo making were developed, i.e, rural waifs contribution in familial decisio making, in farm decision making and in household decision making. In addition seventeen independent variables. Appropriate statistical techniques such as percentages, frequencies, means, standard deviations, simple correlation and multiple IregreSSion techniques, as well as, step wise multiple regression (forward solution) were employed II' examine the hyposlzec relatlonahtps between the inbependent variables and each dimension of the total scores of rural wives rol~ in familial deciSions making. Results showed that about 66% of the sample's memb r have an average level of contribution in familial decisions making and about 17% of the sample members have low level in it. Wife's educational s~tus, wife's jeb, familial differantiation, wife's age when marrjago, attitude to ard social participation, cosmopolitans, wife's political participation a d familial satisfaction were significantly and correlated with rural wives (0 in familial decisions making, while, family number size and number 0 husband marriage were negatively and signifiCantly correlated with rural wives role in familial decisions making. 'Mlen multiple regression analysis were applied, there were six variables, wife's job, family number size, familial differentiatlol , attitude toward social participation, cosmopolitans and familial satisfaction were found significanllyand the main variables affect on rural wives rol I in familial decisions making. Stepwise multiple regression analysis indicated that the coe1fficients of determination were 26.6%, 35.5%, 13.2% and 27.2% to the dirrension of wives contribution in housing decisions making, farm decisions ~akin9, in familial decision making and in Ihe Iota I score of three dimensions as a composite variable. The stepwise multiple regression analysis yielded reduced equations containing the determinants of rural women's role in familial decisions making and each dimension, in summery, familial differentiatio , familial satisfaction, wife's job, attitudes toward social participation, family number size, cccrnopclitans and wife's political participation w'ere found tn be the determinants of the rural woman's role in familial decisions making.1 Finally, the research findings have definite implications of both levels, theoretically and practically. | ||||
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