Necessity Analysis of Proper Urban Governance Indices from the Viewpoints of Women: A Case Study of Zabol City

Following the ever increasing spread of cities, human being has found no way for controlling and managing the cities except through democratic development. For achieving that, he has reacheda new form of governance. Somehave considered this as a new creation and invention in constructing modern social structure. The present paper aims to study the elements of proper urban governance from viewpoints of women in the city of Zabol. The study was conducted through descriptive-analytic method, library studies, and field studies and through deployment of AHP method. For selecting urban governance indices—from among 24 indices of the United Nations—five general and important criteria (namely, cooperation, equality, effectiveness, answerability, and security) were selected; which form the core of these indices and are accepted by all organizations. The results show the necessity and priority of good governance indices from the viewpoints of women in the city of Zabol asfollow: First, security index; second, equality; third, cooperation; fourth, answerability; and fifth, effectiveness