ایجاد شده در تاریخ: ﺳﻪشنبه 29 مهر 1399 - 9:10

The dashboard of the information for women heads of households, is being completed, developed, and updated both structurally and in terms of data.

The Director-General of the Office of Support and Empowerment of the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor, and Social Welfare announced the completion, development, and updating of the information dashboard for women heads of households.

Maryam Sadat Mirmalek Sani referring to the unveiling of the information dashboard of women heads of households in September in the presence of Dr. Masoumeh Ebtekar, Vice President for Women and Family Affairs, and Ahmad Midari, Deputy for Social Welfare, and said, "This dashboard is being completed, developed, and updated both structurally and in terms of data, and its connection is possible by creating a single-window of support services for this group."

Mirmalk explained, "In this regard, the Deputy Minister of Social Welfare of the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor, and Social Welfare to implement paragraph "T of Article 80 of the Sixth Development Plan Law" and under the responsibility of the Statistics and Information Committee of the Action Plan under this article and using two information sources "Iran and the data of the Iranian Welfare Database" (related to 1998) for the first time launched the information dashboard of women heads of households and compiled an atlas of the status of these people."

She stated that the purpose of launching this dashboard was to provide a comprehensive picture of the situation of women heads of households using up-to-date and integrated data, and added, "This dashboard helps to provide better support and empowerment policies for this group by accessing data on the status of female-headed households and reviewing national and provincial trends over the past 20 years."

The Director-General of the Office of Support and Empowerment of the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor, and Social Welfare stated, "By examining the data from this dashboard, it can be seen that, for example, in 1397, in urban areas, 33.4% of female-headed households were among the poor households, which was 2.7% more than male-headed households in this category; The same studies show that not only is the number of female-headed households more vulnerable than male-headed households, but there is also a deep gap between urban and rural female-headed households."

This dashboard will be made available to organizations and agencies related to women, especially women heads of households, for policy and planning purposes in the future.

Source: Vice Presidency for Women and Family Affairs