Abstract

Development scholars believe that one of the most important requirements for development in the 21^st century is entrepreneurship, and more attention to the needs of women. For this purpose, this paper is aimed at identifying factors influencing rural women in Ilam City about entrepreneurial skills, and has been undertaken using the survey method. Questionnaire is the main instrument of data collection in this research. The population used in this research is 8, 770 Ilam rural women. Using the Cochran formula, 250 people were selected as sample using the proportional stratified sampling method. Statistical analyses are done with SPSS Version12 software. The result showed that 36% of the respondents represented low entrepreneurship skills. In addition to that, regression analysis showed that individual skills and participation and psychological features determined 37% entrepreneurial skills.

Key words: Entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial skills, rural women, Ilam City.