Culturally Defined Gender Roles and Female Enrolment in Addis Ababa Tvet Colleges
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2009-07
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Since early days of human history gender has played a role in assignment ยท
of roles in society. It has been also a cause of deprivation and segregation.
Because of culturally defined gender roles the male dominated the
economy and the female remained economically subordinate. Both
assignment of roles and women's subordination to men has its reflection in
cultural practice, language, role in the family, in religions life and so forth.
The continuity of the existing cultural practices and attitudes regarding
gender roles and the position of the female in society perpetuate the in
equality of the sexes as women remain behind in decision making and
important aspects of social and economic life of their society. The objective
of the research is to find out the relationship between culturally defined .
gender roles and female enrolment in TVET colleges in Addis Ababa. On
that basis this research work investigates in to the culturally defined
gender roles in general and in the context of Addis Ababa and concludes
that the public in Addis Ababa has the attitude what role male and
female members should play in community and family life. Further, the
research investigates whether this has any impact on female enrollment in
TVET collages in Addis Ababa. By taking three TVET Colleges, from the
five government TVET colleges in Addis Ababa, and further by selecting
fields of training dominated by sex at the sample colleges, investigated in
to the state of affairs. and concludes that female trainees enroll in fields
society attributed as those of roles of females. This is also found equally
applicable to male trainees as well. This practice further affects the
opportunity females should have if they were to join fields of study had it
not been for the biases and prejudices of their gender identity ..
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Culturally Defined Gender Roles