Exploratory Research 2012

Perceived role of Armenian Women in society: attitudes towards their political participation

Anahit Poghosyan sought to find out whether there are significant differences in attitudes towards women’s political participation and holding leading political positions between male and female citizens. Her study also aimed at discovering the obstacles towards the promotion of democracy and equal opportunities in Armenia. To test her null hypothesis that men have more negative attitudes towards women’s political participation than women the survey method was employed. The author’s main findings show that the respondents generally believe that women should have equal opportunities of political participation. At the same time her findings reveal the general sentiments on Armenian women’s traditional role within the family. At the end the author demonstrated that men are more prone to think that politics is a man’s world than women’s. With this statement the null hypothesis was accepted.