Structural Barriers to Women's Political Participation in Less Developed Countries; Presentation of strategy

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Associat Perofessor of Political History, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies

2 Ph.D of Political Science of Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies

Abstract

In general, various factors play a role in countries achieving development, and the element of political participation, meaning the participation of all members of society in political processes, is one of the most important. the point is that, unlike developed countries, which paved the way to development by providing opportunities for women's active participation in political processes, there are structural obstacles in the way of women's active political participation in less developed countries Their absence has played an important role comprehensive development. Based on this, the question of the article is what are the Structural barriers of women's active political participation in less developed countries and how can this participation be transformed from a passive state to an active state? The hypothesis of the article is that in less developed countries, the patriarchal political structure and the patriarchal cultural structure are the main obstacles that have prevented the active political participation of women and caused them to be in an unfavorable situation in terms of the level of access to the political power structure. Have But nevertheless, in these countries, by Changing the mentality of elites and ruling political attitudes towards women's political participation, reforming the cultural beliefs of the society regarding women's political participation, etc, this participation has changed from passive to The mode will become active. It should be mentioned that the method of this article is descriptive-analytical.

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