The impacts of socio-economic activities towards improving the quality of life among rural women

• Main Authors: Yusof, Rohana, Hassan, Kalthum, Makol, Badriya P.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: College of Law, Government and International Studies, Universiti Utara Malaysia 2013
• Subjects: HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/11904/1/2.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/11904/; http://www.jgd.uum.edu.my/

Malaysian government has implemented various economic and social programmes in rural Malaysia to promote development and to alleviate poverty.Studies prove that the impacts of development and poverty alleviation programmes can improve significantly among women if programmes are designed for both gender due to the different nature in roles and responsibilities between rural man and woman.This study is to determine the impacts of development programmes towards the quality of life of rural women and their households.Both quantitative (surveys) and qualitative (in-depth interviews and focus group interviews) data collection methods are used for this research.Almost all respondents in this study agree that the economic programmes have contributed to increase respondents’ income and provide financial support to increase their business capital.The respondents also agree that the programmes have improved their quality of life and most importantly the study discovers that the respondents’ personal qualities have improved such as their skills and knowledge, their confident level and attitude.