Family and Psychological Obstacles to Woman Participation in the Process of Sustainable Development in Jordanian Society

Abstract

The study aimed to identify the relationship of family and psychological obstacles to women's participation in the process of sustainable development in Jordanian society, the sample of the study was (700) working women in the governmental, private and various business sectors in the city of Zarqa, and the sample was chosen in a systematic random way, and data was collected using the questionnaire tool, and the statistical program (SPSS) was used to extract the results, the results of the study showed, in general, that all fields of study came with a moderate degree, as the field of family obstacles ranked first, with a total arithmetic mean (3.17), where the paragraph of parents' reluctance to work for women in professions that require travel outside the country was the highest of the paragraphs, with an arithmetic mean of (3.79), while the paragraph of the husband’s family’s opposition to the wife’s work ranked last, with an arithmetic mean of (2.27), and in the last place came the psychological obstacles, where all the indicators were in this field with a total arithmetic mean (3.12), the highest item was annoyed by the distance of the place of residence from work, with an arithmetic mean (3.49), while the paragraph of society’s weak encouragement for women’s work ranked last, with an arithmetic mean of (2.81), the results also showed that there were no statistically significant differences due to the impact of the social status variable on the obstacles (family and psychological), in addition to the existence of statistically significant differences at the significance level (α≥0.05) due to the effect of the educational level variable on the obstacles as a whole (family, psychological).

Keywords: family obstacles, psychological obstacles, development, Jordanian society.

DOI: 10.7176/JEP/14-22-07

Publication date:October 31^st 2023