ASSESSMENT OF FACTORS AFFECTING WOMEN PARTICIPATION IN MANAGERIAL POSITIONS IN CASE OF CHIRO WOREDA PUBLIC SECTORS

Abstract

The objective of this study is to analyze factors affecting Women's Participation in Managerial Positions in the Case of Chiro Woreda Public sectors. Both qualitative and quantitative research approaches were collected. The data were collected using a structured and unstructured questionnaire. Both primary and secondary data were used. The primary data was collected from 222 respondents from the public sectors of the Chiro woreda. Whereas annual reports, documents, journals, published articles, and the woreda’s quarterly reports were used as secondary sources of data. The data was analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics. From quantitative data analysis, descriptive statistics and binary logistic regression statistical tools were used to assess factors affecting women's participation in managerial positions. The findings of this study were several factors significantly influence the participation of women in managerial positions. Education, salary, experience, and marital status have notable impacts. Specifically, higher education, increased experience, and higher salary levels positively affect the likelihood of women holding managerial positions. In contrast, being married, certain positions, religiosity, personal factors, and socio-cultural factors negatively influence this likelihood. The home life factor is not statistically significant in this model. This means many demographic variables affect women's participation in managerial positions both positively and negatively. Some of the explanations for this are low level of knowledge and lack of awareness, low level of education, absence of institutions and institutional capacities in implementing gender-based policy, politicization of women’s organizations, and deep-rooted social-cultural mismanagements. Therefore, to improve such challenges to enhance women's participation in managerial positions, government, community, NGO, and public heads should play considerable roles.