The Basics of Selection of the Rural Opinion Women Lenders from the Point of View of Femal Extension Workers in Behaira, Gharbia, and Menofia Governorates

This study aimed to know the opinion of the female extension workers from basics of selection of the rural opinion women leaders.
Data were collected from a sample of 131 female extension workers, through personal interview questionnaire, as following: 40 From Behaira, 44 From Gharbia, and 47 From Menofia Governorate.
The main findings are:
-        Personal characteristics such as: The effect on the others, the initiative to take the lead, sense of responsibility, acceptance from others, and suitable educational degree.
-        Social skills such as : share others in their occasions, ready to serve others, many friends, participate in village activities, cooperate with others, helping the others, sharing awareness process, and participation in gift collections.
-        Communication skills such as : the ability to persuade, the ability to express their opinion, accept the opinion of others, communicate with female extension workers readiness to express ideas, and ability to display information by a simple way.
-        Extension skills such as: reliable and regular attainder of extension function, willing to try out new ideas, experience in forming economics practices, awareness of the village problems, skills to work with others, the ability to self teach and teach others.
-        The main activities were: teaching women and girls the technical activities, in studying the others needs, discussing the problems with the female extension workers.
-        The main develop the capabilities of the rural opinion leaders were : hand technical cleverness, problem defining and search for the proper solutions, using of the extension aids to simplify the information.
-        The main problems facing female extension workers during their work with local female opinion leaders were : continuous need for training there leaders, no financial stimulation, no special place for the activities, lake of confidence in the extension doings, no time available for the leaders to do their activities, and husband^'s refusal.