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Abstract

In this research, it has been demonstrated that the plural method can investigate the various aspects of the rural woman's life through using three distinct, but interrelated levels, i.e., structural,
individual, and group organizations. The different techniques of this method, i.e., the participatory observation, life-story, and visual methods, take the certain and absolute statements of the surveyed
analysis under question. Through using the plural method, in a northern village in Iran, it has been found out that women playa key role in the household, on the farm, and in the rural community. It has also been
shown that the women's experiences vary in many ways; often in gender relations which are not always the cause of inequalities among the women. Besides, the women challenge to reform and change these
unequal frameworks .

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