THE IMPACT OF SOME SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES FACING WOMAN IN MICRO PROJECTS A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN RURAL AND URBAN AREAS

Document Type : Review Article

Authors

1 Post Grad. Student, Faculty of Graduate Studies and Environmental Research, Ain Shams University

2 faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University

3 Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University

4 Faculty of Commerce, Ain Shams University

Abstract

This research drives at identifying some of the social and environmental variables facing woman in micro projects in both the rural and the urban areas. The study population is Sohag Governorate is divided into (20) items, (10 cases), representing the rural side) in Cairo Governorate, and (10 cases) representing the urban area). The study use the case study approach for being the most appropriate for the current study. The sample is selected purposely.
The study comes to the following results:

The impact of the following variables varies between rural and urban areas regarding age, level of education, marital status, number of family members, average household income, and the extent of spread of micro-enterprises.
The study reached a set of recommendations, the most important of which are: the need to consider facilitating loan repayment periods, providing training courses to establish micro-enterprises, state support for these projects represented in local councils, especially, in the countryside, and support women by conducting training courses to market handicraft products locally and internationally.
The necessity of providing raw materials for women joining the micro-enterprises.
Working on facilitating procedures by making available of loans granted by banks as well as the Enterprise Development Authority, increasing the exhibitions held to market products, whether in rural or urban areas.
Working on supporting women in light of the Corona pandemic by scheduling granted loans before the Corona virus period, working on the spread out of the culture of handicrafts in societies.

 
 

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