المرأة والعمل التطوعي في الأردن: واقع وتحديات (دراسة ميدانية لعينة من المتطوعات في مدينة عمان)

امل سالم العواودة

Abstract


  ملخص

هدفت الدراسة إلى بحث واقع المشاركة التطوعية للمرأة الأردنية من خلال رصد دوافع المرأة نحو العمل التطوعي، وإظهار المعوقات التي تحول دون ممارسة العمل التطوعي، وعلاقة العمل التطوعي بالحركة النسوية في الأردن، وبحث الخصائص الديموغرافية للنساء المتطوعات. ولتحقيق الأهداف تم استخدام أسلوب البحث النوعي من خلال إجراء 25 مقابلة فردية معمقة لنساء متطوعات بمختلف المجالات في مدينة عمان، باستخدام أسلوب العينة الغرضية وتحليلها في ضوء إجراءات التحليل النوعي.

توصلت الدراسة إلى أن الدوافع الاجتماعية والنفسية تشكل أبرز دوافع المرأة نحو ممارسة العمل التطوعي، والتي تتمثل في بناءعلاقات اجتماعية جديدة تحقق لها تبادل الخبرات والمنافع وتعزيز ثقتها بنفسها ودخولها الفضاء العام. بينما شكّلتْ المنظومة الثقافية والصورة النمطية تجاه المرأة أبرز معوقات المشاركة التطوعية لها. في حين توصلت الدراسة إلى أن النساء أكثر إقبالاً على ممارسة العمل التطوعي من الرجال سواء كن عاملات او غير عاملات وبمختلف الفئات العمرية.

 وتوصي الدراسة بإنشاء هيئة مستقلة لتنظيم الأعمال التطوعية تتولى الإشراف على تنظيم المبادرات التطوعية والعمل على التوعية بأهمية العمل التطوعي من خلال برامج منظمة تتبناها المؤسسات الحكومية والخاصة.

 

 

 

Women and Volunteer Work in Jordan: Reality and challenges

Field Study for a Sample of the Volunteers in Amman Jordan

 

Abstract

This study aims to identify the reality of voluntary participation of Jordanian women by monitoring the motivation of women towards volunteering, and showing the obstacles that prevent the exercise of volunteering and the relationship of volunteerism to the feminist movement in Jordan, and examine the demographic characteristics of women volunteers.

To achieve the goals of the study, the qualitative research method was used, through 25 in-depth individual interviews of women volunteers in various fields in the city of Amman, by using the objective sample method and analyzing it in the light of qualitative analysis procedures.

The study concluded that social and psychological motives are the most prominent motivations of women towards the practice of volunteerism, which is represented by the building of new social relations to achieve exchange experiences and benefits, enhance their self-confidence, its entry into the public. Showing that the cultural system and the stereotypical image of women are the main obstacles to their voluntary participation. While the study found that women are more likely to practice volunteer work than men, whether they are workers or non-workers with different age groups.

 


Keywords


voluntary work, women, participation, gender, feminism.العمل التطوعي، المرأة ، المشاركة، النوع الاجتماعي، الحركة النسوية

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.35682/995

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