The Women's Role in The Economic Development in New Valley Governorate

Economic development is very important way to raising the national income, and increasing the economic standard of living in the country, Economic development is based on increase the production level in society. That is, the process of development are process that begins with the population and ends with them, and whereas women represent a half of the workforce in the society, so they cannot be excluded and marginalized. The research problem is represented by: The women's multiple jobs inside and outside its home, but not economically calculated, and thus the inability of society to reach the highest standard of living and productivity for a great part of the working forces of the state. The research aims to identify the women's jobs to increasing family income by using available agricultural resources: To identify their roles in various sectors, and determined the factors affecting these roles, according  an aggregate variable determines women's different jobs, and search for its factors affecting, and determine how women desire to establish small businesses. Data sources: Primary data collected questionnaire by using sampling technique from the governorate, in addition to statistical secondary data published and unpublished by governmental agencies and institutions. Methodology: Descriptive and quantitative analysis, and simple and multiple regression, double logarithmic regression are used, To determine the factors affecting of the women's activities to development the economy of the new valley. The sampling study applied a 5% sampling fraction, the suitable sample size is about 297 units.
Statistical analysis results of the study: The participation of women in the economic development of new valley governorate is represented in five main fields. It is given that there is an overlap between them, from the correlation coefficients matrix, It has been shown that there is a high correlation between female participation in animal production and manufacturing, this is due to the fact that most of the female participation in manufacturing is based on animal products. The determinants of the contribution of women to economic activities include: It can be represented in according to order of importance as: Total wages for work in domestic activity of the year, own animals, the number of female children, the total number of work hours in the domestic activity of the year, the job status of women's, and finally woman's having a postal or bank account. Women's prefer to works in manufacturing, followed by agricultural work, then work by trading.
The most important problems facing women were: Lack of funding for small projects, there is not a suitable place for small businesses, they haven’t near markets, lack of training and guidance, they can't find production inputs, lack of experience in marketing, high prices of inputs, loans available are high interest, there is not refrigerators to save products, These problems represented between 80% and 10% of the women's point of view.
The women suggested same ways to solve these problems: Financing solutions: Providing loans and directing grants and subsidies for the expansion of microenterprises. And skills development solutions by intensifying training, providing animals care at low prices. Marketing solutions are, create outlets for permanent sale, encourage tourism to open up new markets, promotion of foreign exhibitions, and establish a unified craft area for women marketing.