Women’s awareness of institutional voluntary work in the light of community participation and its relationship to managing life responsibilities as an entry point for sustainable development

The importance of the research lies in that it aims to study women’s awareness of community participation in volunteer work and its relationship to managing life responsibilities, explaining the differences in both awareness of women’s community participation in volunteer work in its dimensions, and managing life responsibilities in its dimensions according to place of residence, social status, number of family members, work the mother, the type of volunteering, the method of volunteering.

Thus, the descriptive analytical approach was used, and the research sample included (150) women from community institutions, whether by actual volunteering within the institution or from a distance, and the sample was chosen in a purposeful, intentional way. Women’s general data form, women’s awareness of community participation in voluntary work in its dimensions (knowledge and information, trends, practices), life responsibilities questionnaire with its dimensions (personal responsibility, family responsibility, social responsibility, political responsibility, religious and moral responsibility). The data has been unloaded, classified and tabulated and appropriate statistical methods were used through the SPSS statistical program.

The results revealed a positive, statistically significant correlation at 0.001 between volunteer work with its dimensions (knowledge, information, trends, practices) and the management of life responsibilities with its dimensions (personal responsibility, family responsibility, social responsibility, political responsibility, religious and moral responsibility), and that the independent variables have more influence. On managing life responsibilities after practices ranked first, followed by trends, followed by knowledge and information. The research recommends spreading cultural awareness through the media about voluntary work