Challenges And Opportunities Facing Women Managers In Oromia Regional State Bureaus And Offices

The study is generally intended to investigate challenges and opportunities facing womenrnmanagers in the executive branch regional level bureaus and offices of the Oromia region.rnMoreover, it is concerned with identifying attitude of subordinates towards women managers’rnbehavior, and identifying initiatives taken by the organizations and regional government tornresolve women managers’ problems. To attain these objectives data is collected from secondaryrnand primary sources .Primary data is collected from women and men managers as well as theirrnsubordinates using survey questionnaire and semi structured interview schedules. Secondaryrndata is colleted from regional gender related policy documents. The data is presented andrnanalyzed descriptively using percentages, mean and independent sample t-test by the help ofrnSPSS version 13. Furthermore, relevant literatures are also reviewed. It is found that women arerngenerallyrnunderrepresented in regional bureaus and offices and the majority of them are notrnadequately qualified. They do not have better opportunities to hold managerial jobs both in largernand newly established executive branch bureaus and offices. Furthermore, they are equallyrnunder-represented at all levels of management hierarchy in the study universe. Gap in genderrnpolicies, human resource management in its practices, organizational culture and personalrnbarriers are the major challenges for women to join and steps forward in managerial jobs.rnDespite this fact, the attitudes of both sex subordinates towards women managers are foundrnrelatively encouraging. Regional executive branch bureaus and offices, and the regionalrngovernment have taken some encouraging initiatives to increase women’s share of managerialrnpositions. But they are not adequate to dismantle the “glass ceiling” and “glass walls” inrnmanagerial occupations although current political environment and international institutions’rnpressure among others are the available opportunities. Generally, women managers havernencountered challenges both within the organization and outside of the organization. Thernchallenges are conditioned by institutional and non institutional factors. Thus, in addition tornusing available opportunities, policy intervention and collective effort of stakeholders arerngenerally recommended to eliminate the challenges facing women managers in the executivernbranch regional bureaus and offices of the Oromia state

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