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Item Gender Analysis and Determinants of Employee Job Satisfaction at Ministry of Urban Development and Infrastructure, Ethiopia(Addis Ababa University, 2023-04-28) Beletu Mebrahtom; Aynalem Megersa (PhD)Employee job satisfaction is a pre-requisite for an organization. The aim of this study is to analyze the level of job satisfaction & its determinant factors among male and female employees at Ministry of Urban Development and Infrastructure (MUDI). 245 questionnaire, 62 in-depth & key informants interview were collected from employee for quantitative & qualitative data respectively. The Percentage frequency, Chi-square, multi nominal logistic regression (MNLR) model used for quantitative data analysis and thematic analysis for qualitative data. The study finding result indicated that salary, fringe benefits, promotions with standard criteria, promotion chance for training & education, working environment, clear workflow, co-workers relationship, colleague value the work, evaluation criteria, evaluator approach, recognition & reward were statistically significant P≤ 0.05. These independent variables were the main determinant factors affecting employee job satisfaction. The Qualitative analysis also supports the Quantitative result. The parameter estimates of MNLRM between sex indicates that male are dissatisfied significantly than female in Salary, fringe benefits, fair promotion chance for training & education. Whereas female were dissatisfied than male in transparent procedure & clear work flow, supervisor value, Co-worker relation, Supervisor evaluation approaches. Among demographic factors, Age (P, 0.000), Education Status (P, 0.001), salary (P, 0.000), Work experience ( P, 0.043), work position ( P, 0.000) were statistically significance which are ≤0.05 and major factor affecting the level of job satisfaction where as Marital status was insignificant in this study. In Conclusion there is statistical significance difference between male & female employee on the level of job satisfaction at MUDI.Item Grassroot Networks as a Pathway to Gender Equality፡ The case of StudentLed Networks in Addis Ababa University Main Campus(Addis Ababa University, 2023-11) Addisu Yilhal; Aynalem Megersa (PhD)This study examines how grassroot student-led networks can be a pathway to achieve gender equality. The study focuses on three purposively selected grassroot student-led networks and analyzes their hierarchical and flat structures, decision-making practices, and gender role stereotypes. The study also investigates how these networks identify themselves as feminists and gender justice activists. The results show that although these networks face internal and external challenges, they have the potential to serve as a pathway for the realization of gender equality if they receive technical and financial support from various stakeholders. The study concludes that grassroot student-led networks are prudent task forces that challenge the fundamental constructs of gender inequality at the grass root level.Item Socio-Economic Empowerment of Married Women Working In Selected Flower Farms in Central Ethiopia(Addis Ababa University, 2022-11-05) Mahlet Merid; Aynalem Megersa (PhD)The study aimed at investigating Socio-Economic Empowerment of Married Women Working in Selected Flower Farms in Central Ethiopia. Specifically, it is concerned with the institutional setup and practice that the Sher Ethiopia and Minaye Flowers have in the workplace, it was also exploring in which the two flower farms empower their women employees, then it is used to understand the extent to of women employees' decision-making power on their respective households, then the thesis is concerned with examining the major challenges women employees in the flower farms encounter with. To address the objectives of the study both qualitative and quantitative methods were used. To gather quantitative data survey questionnaires were prepared and filled in face-to-face interactions with respondents then descriptive statistics were used to analyze data gathered through the survey. To gather the qualitative data observation, both in-depth and key informant interviews were used, and to cross-check data collected through the survey, focus group discussion (FGD) were used. The study finding shows regarding its institutional setup and practice there are different policies, procedures, and legal frameworks that the flower farms are guided with to empower women employees. Among others the gender equality and sexual harassment policies and labor proclamations are employed, both Flower farms use the labor proclamation strictly however there is a gap in effective implementation of the policies. The study also shows that the two flower farms have the intentions of empowering the women employees, most of the women interviewed indicated that they have benefited from the empowerment benefits on the farm, and this increase the women's decision-making powers in their households and workplaces. The study also shows that there are challenges they face at the workplace and outside their working area among this, sexual harassment, low access to credits, and low wage are some challenges. The study can be concluded that women's employment in the two flower farms had shown better changes in empowering their workers in terms of increasing the decision-making power, education, training access and health service delivery. Therefore, the study recommends that the government to set a national wage considering the flower farms, creating of women empowerment legal frameworks and follow-up, boost women empowerment benefits in flower farms, and look for the implementations.Item The Role of Community Demand Driven Development in Empowering Women: The Case of Bambasi Woreda, Beneshangul-Gumuz Region(Addis Ababa University, 2023-06) Hizbayesh Getahun; Aynalem Megersa (PhD)Women empowerment, which remains a substantial issue in Ethiopia, is taken as a research concern in Bambasi Wereda of Benishangul-Gumuz Region. Women in the study area were not empowered both socially and economically as men. This limited empowerment has resulted due to the presence of limited women's participation, lack of capacity building, denial of access and control of resources and deprivation of women to decision making. To avoid these restricting factors, a community driven development approach was implemented by the Development Response to Displacement Impacts Project in the study area. This study pinned out the role of community Demand Driven Development in empowering women in the study area. Both qualitative and quantitative research approaches (mixed research approach) were used. Questionnaires, interviews, focus group discussions and document reviews were applied and data were collected concurrently to generate and analyze the data obtained through purposive, stratified, and random sampling techniques. A total of 197 people took part in the study, with 135 Women respondents (48 FHHs and 87 women in MHHs) in household survey, 20 in interviews with key informants, and 42 in focus group discussions. Secondary data were collected from review of related studies, project reports and plans, and other related literature. Quantitative data was coded, entered, validated, and analyzed by descriptive statistics using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS-25). Qualitative data was also categorized by themes and then analyzed. The results of the study indicated that community demand driven development interventions have significantly contributed to women's participation in economic and social issues, household and community decision makings, and improved income, which in turn increased women's empowerment in the study areas. Gender norms which encourage the sphere of women at home and household tasks, prevents women from participating in community decisions and community meetings on an equal footing with men, their lower educational status, presence less seed money for common interest groups and rural saving and credit cooperatives which limited credit access to engage in business requiring more money were encountered problems for women. Arranging convenient time for household work, sharing domestic workloads with young children and husbands, combating gender norms in community meetings through representatives of women committee based members, getting support from their children and relative students in recording their expenditure and revenue, improving group saving to fill gaps to engage in big business and to diversify their business, and sharing of market information through mobile phones were among the coping mechanisms that women were used for encountered problems. Conducting continuous awareness creation trainings on gender issues at grass root level; arranging appropriate time and meeting place, capacity-buildings; promoting women-leadership trainings; creating linkage with microfinances and increasing group saving; promoting women friendly agricultural extension services, adopting labor and energy-saving technologies, and encouraging adult education for women to adopt technologies are suggested recommendations by the study.Item The Role of Ngos in Promoting Women’s Socio-Economic Status: The case of Meseret Humanitarian Organization’s Women economic empowerment Program(Addis Ababa University, 2023-10) Betselot Yitagesu; Aynalem Megersa (PhD)NGO’s support has been considered as one of the instruments in the recent women socioeconomic development program. The aim of the study was to assess the role of NGO in promoting women’s socioeconomic status under the Meseret Humanitarian Organization (MHO) women economic empowerment program. In a country like Ethiopia, NGOs play a crucial role in terms of reducing poverty, women empowerment and other human development. To conduct this study, both primary and secondary data sources are used. The primary data is collected through questionnaires, interviews (key in formant and in-depth) and the secondary data is collected from different books, journals, reports and the internet. Sampling technique used in the study was simple random sampling. A data collection method was mixed approach and those collected data analyzed through using descriptive analysis. The researcher used tables, figures and percentages that are used for data analysis and interpretation. The findings discovered that the program has made a positive impact on attitudinal change, self-confidence (life skill), income change and owing their business for women during the interview and focus group discussions. Moreover, it has a positive impact on personal savings and women’s empowerment both in social and economic changes. The women’s social improvement indicators are changes in social interaction, develop communication skills, capacity to obtain information, share experiences, solve problems together, and Seek collaborative solutions to family challenges through open communication. The project has contributed a great share in improving the lives of women and able women to be empowered form their own beliefs and stand by them with confidence., live true to own values strongly, power (socially & economically) and looks out for self confidence.