Setting up Home Businesses and Economic Empowerment of Rural Women

Given that women can play a significant role in the development of small and home businesses
Therefore, it seems necessary to provide suitable conditions for the development of rural women's businesses. In this regard, the current research was conducted with the aim of investigating the impact of starting home businesses on the economic capability of rural women. The present study aimed to investigate the Setting up home businesses and economic empowerment of rural women. The population of the study includes 256 rural women with domestic business in West Islam Abad county, and 161 entrepreneurs women were selected based on stratified sampling (calculated according to the formula Cochran) from each district. The research instrument was a questionnaire, and its validity was confirmed based on a panel of experts’ opinion familiar with the matter. Also, to determine its reliability, 30 questionnaires were studied and completed by rural women entrepreneurs. Cronbach's alpha coefficient in the economic sector (α=0/87) indicated that the research instrument has a high level of potentiality for data collection. For statistical description, SPSS21 software test was used, and LISREL8.8 was used for structural equation modeling. The results showed that home business which justifies 60 precent on women's economic empowerment. Also, the results of the structural equation model for the empowerment of rural women and reflect a good fitness level is expected. Moreover, research findings indicate that the average economical empowerment 73.9 percent of women surveyed have high.