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The aim of this study is to determine the role of women in decision making and features affecting the participation to the process. The main material of the study is the date collected by survey study with 360 rural women in Erzurum, Erzincan and Bayburt provinces. Factors affecting women's participation in decision making processes have been analyzed using ordered probit model. According to the results of the study, being aged, being married and widow, being trained related to profession, being asked their ideas in family affairs, taking part in selling what produced affect the participation to decision making positively, while non literate bigger farm size and having all income from agriculture affect the participation negatively. Supporting rural women in income generating activities, enhancing their knowledge, skills and competences in farming, training in production, managing and marketing, positive discrimination with regard to rural women could be the suggestions of this study.

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