Document Type : Research Article
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Assistant professor and faculty member of Yazd University, Department of Sociology. Yazd. Iran
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Doctoral student of sociology of Iranian social issues, Faculty of Social Sciences, Yazd University. Yazd. Iran
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Yazd University. Yazd. Iran
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Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Shahid Bahan University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran
10.22084/csr.2024.29188.2281
Abstract
Empowerment is a process whose goal is the full participation of women in decisions related to their own lives. In this process, women are empowered and their agency is recognized as activists and agents of change. This empowerment can include measures to improve the status of women through education, increasing awareness, literacy, and training. Women can increase self-confidence to play a role and actively participate in decision-making on various issues of society.
These programs are being implemented in Kerman City as well, but the consequences of these programs have not been given much attention. Therefore, the purpose of this Grounded Theory is to discover and understand the consequences of women's empowerment in the city of Kerman from the point of view of the participants in these programs, and the main issue of the current research is what are the consequences of the women's empowerment in Kerman and what are the consequences of participating in these programs for women. had? To collect data, semi-structured in-depth interviews were used and interviews were conducted with 21 women who participated in the empowerment processes of government organizations and people's institutions in Kerman until reaching theoretical saturation. In addition to theoretical sampling, the sampling method was purposeful and maintained maximum diversity. Then, using open, central, and selective coding, the research findings were extracted. By extracting interviews and performing three stages of coding, 18 sub-categories and 5 main categories were obtained, and the main categories are the
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