The Role of Rural Women’s Stress in Spatial Distribution of Rural Socio-economic Instability (Case Study: Maneh District, Mane and Samalghan County)

In rural areas, women often have low access to job opportunities, lower social support, inadequate care of children due to cooperating with the spouse or family in production processes, difficulties in getting services and transportation, etc. and these issues will cause privation, inequality, insecurity, and thus psychical distress. Regarding this, social, economic, and ecological stability will be held if in addition to improve social and economic conditions of rural accommodations by supplying facilities, services and infrastructures and providing people with their basic needs, they reach health and psychical tranquility. In this research, has been discussed relationship between rural women’s stress and social-economic and ecological instability in the villages of Maneh district. The methodology used in this study by geographical approach is descriptive–analytic methodology. Also in this study, the sampling of 240 women survey was selected among the 16 rural communities in Maneh district. The results indicate that the sampled women in the studied villages suffer from higher levels of social stress. In fact awareness and feeling inequality on one side and involving in more complicated relations due to development, suffering from shortage and modern needs on the other, also lack of good employment, children confronted to unemployment and worrying about their future occupation in these communities, has highlighted the role of stress therein. Also after classification of villages into categories of stability, it was inferred that despite the reverse correlation between women’s stress and rural instability, there is not reasonable relationship statistically. Nowadays urban influences, has changed rural life in a way that feeling inequality and low self-confidence has led to suffer from the feeling of lack of urban facilities and welfare services and consequently in order to get welfare and more development, get exposed to more stress.