Siba Said^(1)*

• Department of Agricultural Economic, faculty of Agriculture, Tishreen University, Lattakia, Syria.

(*Corresponding author: Eng. Siba Said E-Mail :sibasaeed1978@gmail.com)

Received: 5/03/2020                                  Accepted: 29/05/2020

Abstract

The research aimed to study the obstacles that facing rural woman in Jableh region, inorder to serve and develop their society, and to know the extent to which these impedimenta are different by gende , and inorder to  achieve the goals the social survey method  that is carried out by studying the phenomenon to different dimensions was used. The study was performed in 2019, in the countryside of Jableh, Lattakia, Syria. The results The results indicated that the most important factors that stand in the way of activating the role of women in the countryside of Jableh are social factors, after that  economic and political factors, and finally personal factors, The level of these obstacles was estimated at the middle level .The study showed that females see that social and economic and political obstacles prevent them from empowering them, while males see that the difficulty of empowering women is due to the personal factors specific to women.The research recommended that community should be made aware of the importance of women’s administrative development in the progress and development of society, components and the achievement of its goals .

Key words: Rural community, Rural woman, Rural development, obstacles .

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