WOMEN'S ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO PROTECTING THE HOME ENVIRONMENT FROM POLLUTION (A FIELD STUDY ON A SAMPLE OF FEMALE HEADS OF HOUSEHOLD IN ADEN GOVERNORATE)

Abstract

The study aimed to Identify the extent of environmental awareness of women In protecting the home environment from air, water, food, audio and visual pollution, and waste pollution. Of female heads of household, consisting of (121) single women In Aden Governorate. The study Included a theoretical framework that included concepts related to It (environment, environmental awareness, and environmenta pollution), then ecological theory, the possibility school, deterministic theory, types of environmental pollution, and then previous studies. The researcher used the statistical program (SPSS) to analyze the data and approach the interpretation of the results, and the study concluded the most important results represented in the existence of a high level of awareness of women in protecting the home environment from pollution, and this appears in their high environmental awareness of audio and visual pollution, water pollution, and lunch pollution. waste pollution, and finally air pollution. The study reached recommendations, the most important of which are: Interest in spreading environmental awareness in women and family programs through various media, and developing a strategy to protect the environment from pollution in an Integrated system that leads to Interaction and integration between all workers and those interested at the level of the family and society to confront the problems of pollution in society, and the family educating its children and instilling positive values In them, guide and instruct them to follow correct and positive behavior through proper socialization.