DETERMINANTS OF WOMEN UNEMPLOYMENT IN GUBRE TOWN

Abstract

Women employment in economic activities has several valuable effects for women and their families in particular and the economy in general. Women unemployment represents a growing concern worldwide. The main objective of this study was to identify determinants of women unemployment in Gubre town. Data was collected by using well-designed structural questionnaires from a random sample of 107 respondents were selected by using simple random sampling technique. The data were analyzed by statistical software packages (SPSS). To analyze the data, descriptive statistics, chi-square test of associations and binary logistic regression were used. The descriptive result revealed that about 42.1% of the women were unemployed while 57.9% were employed. Educational status, marital status, Occupational status and Economic status of women has significant association with women unemployment status at 5% level of significance.From the result of study the variable household size, educational status of women, and occupational status of women had statistically significant effect on women unemployment status. Therefore, the concerned body should have to reduce the effects of women unemployment by creating job opportunity to all citizens, increasing vocational training and labor market information