Culturally Defined Gender Roles and Female Enrolment in Addis Ababa Tvet Colleges
| dc.contributor.advisor | Ademe, Enguday (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Eyasu, Helen | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-01-10T12:16:40Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-10T14:47:41Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-01-10T12:16:40Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-10T14:47:41Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2009-07 | |
| dc.description.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 .. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/12345678/15619 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Culturally Defined Gender Roles | en_US |
| dc.title | Culturally Defined Gender Roles and Female Enrolment in Addis Ababa Tvet Colleges | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |