Gender Drivers Effective on Entrepreneurship Development in Rural Areas (Case study: Papi section of Khorramabad city)
Subject Areas :zahra hejazizadeh 1 , 2 , mehrshad toulabi nejad 3
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Keywords: Entrepreneurship Rural entrepreneurship Rural development, Logistic model Khorramabad township,
Abstract :
Developing entrepreneurship while generating employment and creating incomes can lead to lower unemployment among the villagers. However, in almost the entire world, the factors and drivers that affect entrepreneurship activities vary between men and women, especially in rural areas. The aim of the present study, functional and the method is descriptive-analytic. The instrument for collecting data was a questionnaire and interviews. The statistical population of rural women and men is the Papi section of Khorramabad city (N = 8775). 330 samples (172 males and 158 females) were selected using the Cochran formula. To achieve the research questions, variance analysis, post hoc tests, and binary logistic regression (LM-Newton-Mar card-Raphson method) were used.The results of the research show that there is a significant difference between the factors and factors affecting entrepreneurship development of rural women and men. The entrepreneurship development drivers for rural men (in addition to the economic factor that has been the most important driver of entrepreneurship among women and men) is influenced by infrastructure and institutional factors, while important family and socio-cultural factors The most important drivers of rural women entrepreneurship development. Regarding the results, it is necessary to pay attention to the entrepreneur's gender factor and in order to eliminate the entrepreneurial barriers, taking into account the gender of the entrepreneurs of the strategy and the proportional model, in order to develop entrepreneurship, and especially in rural areas.
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