An Analysis of Barriers to Woman’s Economic Participation in Iran

Document Type : Original Research

Authors
Firouzeh Azizi 1
Fahimeh Moradi 2
1 Faculty of Management and Economics, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
2 MA in Economics, University Lecturer and Researcher, Tehrn, Iran.
Abstract
It is important to investigate the status of women's presence in different economic sectors and formal and informal economies. Also, considering the special situation of Iran in terms of increasing number of women with higher education and economic sanctions, identifying the effective factors for recognizing barriers to women's presence in economic, social, and cultural dimensions and providing solutions for removing those barriers is the need of the present time to obtain practical results for the field of employment policy. Accordingly, this study, after identifying the effect of these barriers on women's economic participation, intends to provide solutions to eliminate and reduce the effect of barriers and suggest appropriate solutions for creating opportunities and increasing women's economic participation. Based on the results, using a correlation test and multivariate regression, it was shown that three of them, economic, social, and occupational barriers had a negative and significant effect on women's economic participation in Iran's labor market, while the effect of institutional barriers was not statistically confirmed.

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The International Journal of Humanities
Volume 29, Issue 3
Summer 2022
Pages 79-107