The Role of Women’s Participation in Leadership and Decision Making Position: The Caseof Ginnir Town Administration inOromia Regional State.
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2020-08
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The reason that the magnitude of women’s participation in leadership and decision
making position is insufficient in public sector. The objective of this study is to examine the
role of women’s participation in leadership and decision making position in the case of
Ginnir town administration. Descriptive and explanatory survey design and mixed (both
quantitative and qualitative) approaches were used in this study. Primary and secondary
data were gathered from public service officials including men and women through
interview and questionnaire.16 men for questionnaire and four men for interviewees were
selected through purposive sampling method .whereas census was the technique
implemented to approach 86 women. From 235 target population of the study, 106 sample
sizes was selected of which 106 respondents respond accordingly with a response rate of
100%. Data analyzed using descriptive and summarized as well as presented using
frequency and percentage. The study clearly indicate that women participation in
leadership and decision making position was low as the result of traditional ,socio cultural, educational gap, gender bias, ineffective policy implementation and women’s
household and workload .The study recommends that ,public institution should provide to
combating gender bias ,socio-cultural factors ,discrimination, superiority feeling,
eliminating gender disparities in primary and secondary education and traditional attitude
,that difficult facing for women towards leadership ,and decision making position as well
as in staff too
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Leadership role, decision making, women participation, mixed approach, Public sector.