Phenomenological Analysis of Women's Understanding of Home Businesses in the City of Ghorve Dargazin

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Department of Social Sciences, faculty of Economic and Social Sciences, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran

10.22059/jrd.2024.378390.668861

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The main purpose of this study is the qualitative analysis of women's understanding of the concept of “work”. The secondary goal is to examine the characteristics of rural home businesses and the obstacles they face from the perspective of rural working women.
This investigation’s conceptual framework is predicated on theories of labor sociology. The target demographic is women who operate home-based enterprises in Ghorve city. The sample size is restricted to 25 women who are experienced in domestic work and is selected using the snowball method and theoretical saturation.
The findings have been analyzed in 3 main categories, 17 subcategories and 31 concepts. The results of this research show that women who operate home-based enterprises define work as the “earning of income,” “gaining of social prestige,” “participating in decision-making,” and “feeling of subjectivity.”The characteristics of home business as described by women include “flexibility of work,” “floating time,” “self-employment,” and the “sameness of time, place, and nature of a woman’s job with household duties.”
In accordance with women’s narrative, they faced many essential challenges such as “Lack of initial capital,” “lack of work skills” and “hard gender attitudes and stereotypes”.

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The Journal of Community Development (Rural-Urban)
Volume 16, Issue 1 - Serial Number 30
October 2024
Pages 167-186

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