تاثیر توانمندسازی شغلی بر امنیت غذایی زنان روستایی سرپرست خانوار تحت پوشش سازمان بهزیستی

این مطالعه با هدف تاثیر توانمندسازی شغلی بر امنیت غذایی زنان روستایی سرپرست خانوار تحت پوشش سازمان بهزیستی انجام شد. تحقیق کاربردی و توصیفی است و در استان تهران در طول سال‌های 1398-1400 انجام گرفت. جامعۀ آماری این مطالعه شامل زنان سرپرست خانوار روستایی تحت پوشش سازمان بهزیستی استان تهران است که براساس فرمول کوکران 216 نفر انتخاب شدند. پرسشنامۀ محقق‌ساخته برای پنج متغیر مهارت‌های ارتباطی و کار گروهی (7 گویه)، خلاقیت و حل مسئله (6 گویه)، تعهد و احساس مسئولیت (6 گویه)، اطلاعات و دانش تخصصی (5 گویه) و مهارت‌های فنی و کار عملی (5 گویه) طراحی شد. همچنین پرسشنامۀ استاندارد برای امنیت غذایی با ابعاد فراهمی و دسترسی، ثبات و استفاده از مواد غذایی استفاده شد. تحلیل داده‌ها به کمک مدل معادلات ساختاری و با استفاده از نرم‌افزار amos24 صورت گرفت. براساس نتایج مطالعه، زنان روستایی سرپرست خانوار وضعیت متوسطی برای توانمندسازی شغلی و وضعیت ضعیفی برای امنیت غذایی دارند. نتایج حاکی از آن است که توانمندسازی شغلی 57/50 درصد از امنیت غذایی زنان سرپرست خانوار تحت پوشش سازمان بهزیستی را تبیین می‌کند. درمجموع توصیه می‌شود برای بهبود امنیت غذایی زنان روستایی سرپرست خانوار تحت پوشش سازمان بهزیستی، توجه ویژه‌ای به توانمندسازی شغلی صورت گیرد.

the effects of job empowerment on food security of rural female-headed households under supervision of the welfare organization

the empowerment has been known as controlling decision making about his or her life and ability for interventions in all their life challenges (baig et al., 2018). women empowerment can improve sustainability in development fields (akhter & cheng, 2020). empowerment conception not only comprises extrinsic control but it also is included the development of intrinsic capabilities (abrar-ul-haq, jali, & islam, 2018). it has been reported that the development of the empowerment in women is a pivotal actors for improving productivity and food security in rural areas (sharaunga, mudhara, & bogale, 2016).food security is the measure of the availability of food and individuals’ ability to access it. according to the united nations’ committee on world food security, food security is defined as meaning that all people, at all times, have physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that meets their food preferences and dietary needs for an active and healthy life. female-headed households who live in rural areas are faced with serious challenges in their life, because they should manage their life and supply their life costs. in iran, some supporting institutions support female-headed households but their pensions are not sufficient to manage their life. it was recently reported that 32% of iranian families are living in food insecurity (pakravan-charvadeh et al., 2020).thus, this study was conducted to investigate the effects of job empowerment on food security of rural female-headed households under supervision of the welfare organization. statistical population of the current study included 495 women based on the data collected from statistical center of iran and 216 women were selected with the help of cochran’s formula. tehran province was divided into ten rural districts and each district was considered as a classification. a self-designed questionnaire consisting from 11 variables were used for job empowerment of women comprising grouping work and communication skills (n= 7 items), creativity and solving problem (n= 6 items), commitment and responsibility (n= 6 items), information and specific knowledge (n= 5 items) and technical skills and operational work (n= 5 items). a five-point likert scale was considered for each variable ranging from 1 (very low) to 5 (very high). a standard questionnaire comprising accessibility (n= 6 items), availability (n= 6 items), utilization (n= 7 items) and stability (n= 4 items) was used for food security construct. a six-point likert scale was considered for each variable ranging from 0 (any) to 5 (very high). the data were also collected for age, education, job, family size, and annual income. to investigate the effects of constructs of job empowerment on food security, structural equation modeling (sem) was used. the results showed that the age mean of the women-headed households in rural areas was 48.28 with standard deviation of 11.55 years. mean and standard deviation for constructs were as follows; grouping work and communication skills (2.77 ± 0.88), creativity and solving problem (3.01 ± 0.90), commitment and responsibility (3.26 ± 1.02), information and specific knowledge (2.94 ± 0.94), technical skills and operational work (3.22 ± 1.00), access (2.23 ± 0.84), availability (2.42 ± 0.80), utilization (2.69 ± 1.10) and stability (2.57 ± 0.74). the results for model-fitting showed that job empowerment and food security had a good fit for the data with fit indices (χ2/df=1.85, cfi=0.92; nfi= 0.96; rmsea=0.032). the results show that indices are appropriate and the model has a good fit. the results showed that job empowerment could determine 57.50% of food security variance. in conclusion, this study showed that factors of grouping work and communication skills, creativity and solving problem,