The overall aim of this research was modeling the rural women's empowerment in Sari
Township. To achieve this aim, women's empowerment indicators and affecting factors on women's
empowerment were identified in Sari Township. The statistical population included 111124 women
living in the rural areas of Sari Township. Women were selected through stratified random sampling
technique. The sample size was determined using Cochran’s formula. A sample of 293 women were
taken randomly. Research methodology applied in this study was a combination of descriptiveanalytical
and quantitative methods. Also cronbach’s alpha was 0.85. The average age of women in
rural areas was 46.33 years and 86.3 percent of rural women in Sari had more than 11 years
experience of working in agriculture sector. The average family size was 4 per family and 65 percent
had no savings. Also, 62 percent of the women's empowerment variance in rural areas of sari is
determined by six factors of communication, women's loan source, methods and approaches,
obstacles, solutions and education. The most effective factor on women's empowerment in rural
areas of Sari was women's loan source with path coefficient of 0.423. Other rural women were the
most important rural women's loan source. The most useful method from the rural women's
perspective was group methods such as training workshops on processing agricultural products. The
major Obstacle to rural women's empowerment was women’s distrust to each other and the main
solution to cope was to give loans and credits to rural women.