محــــددات مشـــاركــة المــرأة الــــريفيــة فــى الأنشــطــة الإنتـــاجيــة فــى محـافـظــة الشــرقية

This research aimed to identify the general characteristics of the respondents, to identify the sources of information obtained by the respondents about the productive activities, and to identify the level of rural women participation in productive activities in the fields of (plant production, animal and poultry production, and to identify the factors related to the degree of rural women participation in productive activities in the fields of (plant production, poultry and animal production, food and crafts processing) and to determine the relative contribution of the independent variables in explain the difference in the degree of rural women participation in productive activities. To recognize the role of agricultural extension in encouraging rural women to carry out productive activities and to identify the main obstacles facing rural women in their participation in the productive activities and to identify the proposals of the respondents to activate their participation in the productive activities. The research was conducted in Sharkia Governorate. Three randomly selected districts were chosen. The village of Bani Amer was selected from. Zagazig District. The village of Taha al-Marg was selected from Dyarb-Negm District and the village Met Bashar was selected from Minya al-Qamh District. The data were collected from each village, and the sample included 50 respondents from each village in a simple random way. Data collection was used to achieve the objectives of the research using the questionnaire method in the personal interview. The data were collected during 2017 and the statistical methods were used to analyze and present the results. These methods included frequency and percentages in the presentation of the data, Pearson correlation coefficient (to measure the relation with quantitative variables) and Spearman correlation coefficient (to measure the correlation with descriptive variables: education and marital status). The most important findings were that (9.33%) of the respondents have low exposure to sources of information, 54.67% medium, 36.0% high, and the most common areas that increase the family income in which rural women participate are animal and poultry activiteis followed by the field of food processing, and the field of plant production. The results also showed a significant correlation between the degree of rural women participation in production activities and the following variables: (age, marital status, educational status, number of household members, monthly income, assets owned, informal participation, cultural openness, savings tendency, investment tendency, economic ambition, exposure to information sources