FACTORS THAT AFFECT WOMEN PARTICIPATION IN LEADER SHIP AND DECISION MAKING: ON THE CASE OF WOLKITE TOWN SELAMBER KEBELE

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. The general objective of this research is to examine women’s possibility to advance to Leadership and decision making. This thesis is based on the fact that there are Less Female Leaders both in district and country. The specific objective of this research is to assess the factors that affect women participation in Leadership and decision making in Wolkite Town Selamber Kebele. It also aimed examine the major barriers that hinder women participation from Leader ship and decision making and evaluate, the current status of women in Leader ship institution in Wolkite Town Selamber Kebele and recommended possible solutions for problems. In order to meet these objectives both quantitative and qualitative research method were used. The data was collected to explore the current gender practice in organization and assessing the factors for Law representation of women in Leader ship and decision making. Consequently, non-probability sampling was used select the respondents and key informants. 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.