Examine some Legal-Governmental barriers affecting rural womenʹʹs entrepreneurship (A Case Study, Ilam, Iran)

In many developing countries including Iran, the presence of women in the labor market has not been increased with regard to their level of education. Similarly, there are plenty of obstacles hindering women economic activities outside their houses. The main purpose of this study was to analyze some Legal-Governmental barriers of rural women entrepreneurship in Ilam province. The research was an applied study type and due to the lack of control variables, it was considered as a semi-empirical and a casual–relative kind of research. Population of the study consisted of all entrepreneur women located at various rural areas of Ilam. A proportional stratified random sampling method was applied. The sample size was chosen up to 310 numbers of the target group to be able to use Cochrane formula. The main tool of the research was questionnaire which was developed in three main sections. Analysis and data processing was done at two steps. The descriptive statistics (central and dispersion parameters) and analysis (Spearman correlation coefficient) were used. Results of this study showed that government intervention in pricing, obstacles in the political and economic relations with other countries, Lack of coordination between agencies and organizations involved in entrepreneurship, Lack of encouragement of Entrepreneurs by the government, Lack of appropriate programs of entrepreneurship by the government, paying direct and indirect of governmental subsidies to the producers and existence of some obstacles to the import and export of products were the main Legal- Governmental barriers affecting rural womenʹs entrepreneurship. Correlation analysis between variables indicated that there is a significant relationship between Legal- Governmental variables with the rural womenʹs entrepreneurship.