FACTORS THAT AFFECT WOMEN PARTICIPATION IN LEADERSHIP AND DECISION MAKING IN CASE OF ETHIOPIA

Abstract

Women face multi-faced challenge to participate in leadership and decision making due to socio cultural organizational barriers, gender stereo type, and educational gap and work place policy factors. This study aimed to assessment of factor that affect women’s participation in leadership and decision making in Ethiopia. In the study researchers questions the existing challenges face women in leadership practice look like and factor that create the impact on women participation in leadership and decision making. Leader ship is a process in which people who assume the role of leading could work towards accomplishing a certain objective. These people are responsible in executing the work and achieving the desired goal .Leadership is to attain the desired goal, a leader should be able to plan, organize, lead and monitor the activities in which he/she is entrusted. The finding shows that women are highly underrepresented in high Level position due to some factors, such as socio cultural, organizational barriers educational gap, gender stereotypes. Thus, in order to minimize those existing gender gap in Leader ship and decision making the town needs to implement affirmative action at all level, giving quota number for women at entrance stage as well as clearly needs to set the criteria like, educational training, empowerment, and affirmative action while assigning employees at Leader ship and decision making