Abstract

Women participation in economic activities plays a critical role in driving economic development throughout the world. This study aims to analyze the role and determinants of women’s labor force participation for reducing household poverty in the case of Debre Birhan town. To carry out this, the study used a cross-sectional study design. The data was collected by distributing questionnaires to a total of 291 sample households using multi-stage sampling technique. Logistic regression model was employed to analyze the determinants of women labor force participation by the collected data. The binary logit regression result identified that training, exposed to mass media and access to credit and education status of woman were found to be positive and significantly related to the probability of being participate. Moreover, Logistic regression model was employed in order to analyze the effect of woman labor force participation to household poverty reduction, with the probability of a household being poor as a dependent variable and a set of demographic and socioeconomic variables as the explanatory parameters. Based on this, out of the 291 surveyed household heads, 183(62.89%) of them were found poor. The result of this study confirms that women’s participation reduces the household poverty. Therefore, this study recommends that household uses family planning, promotes woman to attend higher education, exposed to mass media, creating public or private daycare centers for child and access to credit for woman. At this juncture both the households and the government should have the joint effort and responsibility to find possible panaceas.

摘要

妇女参与经济活动在推动全世界经济发展中起着关键作用。这项研究旨在分析在德布勒比尔汗镇，妇女参与劳动力减少家庭贫困的作用和决定因素。为此，本研究使用了横断面研究设计。通过使用多阶段抽样技术向总共291个样本家庭分发调查表来收集数据。采用Logistic回归模型，通过收集的数据分析了女性劳动力参与的决定因素。二元logit回归结果表明，接受大众媒体培训以及妇女获得信贷和教育地位的培训是积极的，并且与参与的可能性显着相关。而且，为了分析女性劳动力参与对减少家庭贫困的影响，采用了Logistic回归模型，以家庭贫困的可能性作为因变量，以人口和社会经济变量作为解释参数。基于此，在被调查的291位户主中，有183位（62.89％）被发现贫穷。这项研究的结果证实，妇女的参与减少了家庭贫困。因此，这项研究建议家庭使用计划生育，促进妇女接受高等教育，接触大众媒体，为儿童建立公共或私人日托中心以及妇女获得信贷。在这个关头，家庭和政府都应该共同努力，共同承担寻找可能的灵丹妙药的责任。