Investigate the effect of Women's Employment Nomads Areas, in the Handicrafts on their Household Economy

Nomad’s women affect the household economy via various ways. Employment of women in the handicrafts sector is one of the most important ways affecting the household economy for providing their needs. The aim of this present study is to investigate the effect of nomad women''s employment (semi-migratory) in handicrafts on household economies in Zrdlan village from chardavol county of Ilam province. This applied research was conducted by data collection form library-documentation research، field studies and survey via questionnaire. Geographic area of research is 26 villages that 54. 16 percent of the total villages in the study area are included. The rural economy is based on livestock breeding. In the study area also nomads'' women produce handicrafts such as sieh mal، chit، give، monj bafi، Jajim bafi، woodworking equipment of kitchen and etc. The population of the study was women over 12 year old (nomads، semi-migratory) in Zardelan village (2891 = N)، which sample size was estimated at 190 cases by using Cochran formula (0. 5 = p & q and 0. 08 = d) and using simple random sampling. Results showed that factors such as primitive technology for production، being far away from town، geographical isolation، lack of customers، lack of markets for their products and the lack of official support cause less access of women to income via handicrafts production in the region are studied. On the other hand، one-sample t-test results did not confirm the impact of nomad women`s employment in handicrafts on their household economies because of the problems.