COMPARATIVE STUDY ON DETERMINANTS OF WOMEN PARTICIPATON IN LEADERSHIP AMONG SELECTED GURAGE ZONE PUBLIC SECTOR OFFICE

Abstract

Women face multi-faced challenges to participate in leadership position due to different factors. The main aim of this study is to investigate the determinants of women Participation in leadership positioning comparative study at selected two public sectors in gurage zone, particularly women, child and youth affairs and education sector. This research is based on the fact that there are less female leaders than men leaders, both in country and in the region as well as in zonal level. The objective of this thesis is to identifying the determinants comparative study that affecting women participation in leadership position in public sectors. It also aimed to identify the major factors that hinder women participation in leadership position and to evaluate the effect of gender gap in leadership position. In order to meet the objective, explanatory research design was used. Bothqualitative and quantitative research approach used to analyze and interpret data. The data collected by questionnaires and interview for selected public sectors head office and employees to explain the current gender practices in the two public sectors and assessing the factors for low representation of women in leadership position. Consequently, the study was used for census sampling; because the Population sample size is 108, probability and non-probability sampling techniques were used to selects the respondents and to make the researches. Selected data analyzed by descriptive statisticsand ANOVA. The findings both selected sectors indicate that women are highly underrepresented in leadership position due to some factors such factors are organizational factors and work place policies which are major cause. Due to these factors women participation in leadership and decision making position was insignificants and get less confidence for the position. In order to minimize those factors zonal needs to implement leadership skill training and affirmative action to enhance participation of women in leadership