The Role of Women's Labor Force in Household Income in Villages

  • Abdul Wali Hazheer Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Economy, Parwan University, Parwan, Afghanistan
  • Hamayon Ehsan Department of National Economy, Faculty of Economy, Balkh University, Afghanistan
  • Gulaqa Anwari Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, Kunduz University, Afghanistan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2512-4443
Keywords: Women's Labor Force; Women's Labor Share; Family Economy; Income; Villages; Khost District

Abstract

Since women make up half of the population, they have a significant role in providing family resources, so that women's social responsibility in some matters is more important than men's, in the family environment as a mother, wife and raising children and outside the home play an effective role in manufacturing and service activities, the use of women's labor force in the production of goods is one of the fundamental components of developed countries. But women's activities in some backward societies are unfairly ignored and cannot even be counted in the calculation of national production, this study aims to investigate the contribution and role of women's economic activity in the economy of rural families with the case example of Khost and Farang districts of Baghlan province, it is important to investigate this issue because by recognizing and stabilizing the amount of women's activity, the transformation in the old patriarchal system is important. Making changes in infrastructures, helped in the social fair business method, and economic growth of the country, the data collection method is two types (field questionnaire that 247 families in the form of samples and from other reliable domestic and foreign scientific books and articles), to analyze information and get the intensity of the relationship about women's work in agriculture, livestock and handicrafts in the family economy, by Pearson method. The output of 0.71%, with a coefficient of 0.504% and the value of his statistics 4.83%, which is greater than the critical value of 2.069%, the results of statistical analysis with a confidence level of 95% indicate the fact that there is a positive relationship between women's work and the income of rural families and the value of women's work has a positive and significant role in the economy of rural families.

Published
2022-12-02
How to Cite
Hazheer, A., Ehsan, H., & Anwari, G. (2022). The Role of Women’s Labor Force in Household Income in Villages. International Journal of Social Science Research and Review, 5(12), 76-88. https://doi.org/10.47814/ijssrr.v5i12.684