Womens Participation In Educational Leadership In Selected High Schools In Addis Ababa City Administration

The purpose of the study was to find and in barriers for women to enterrnleadership positions in selected secondary schools in Addis Ababa CityrnAdministration. It was intended to assess the institutional, domestic or personalrnas well as intra personal problem of women to inter leadership positions inrneducational institutions. In this regard; secondary schools in Addis Ababa CityrnAdministration were selected to be main focus area. The main beneficiaries orrnthe study were secondary school female teachers, principals and deputyrnprincipal in Addis Ababa. A significant contribution was intended to be madernwith the findings to the main participants of policy makers at our levels. Tornextract their perception on the matter data gathering tools like the questionnairernand interview was considered appropriately. From the 56 secondary Schools inrnthe ten sub-cities, twelve were purposefully selected from among 4 sub-cities .Byrnusing purposive sampling each sample element is selected for purpose. Aboutrn42% of the participants perceive those in principal ship positions to have bothrnfeminine of masculine characters while about 29% of them said that theyrnperceived principals with character with assertiveness, aggression, high selfrnesteem and self confidence or in short with masculine characters. While this is sorn69% of them female teachers include this the study never aspired for leadershiprnpositions at the beginning of their career. Additionally, choosing from issuesrninvolved in recruitment and selection about 41% of the respondents said that it isrnthe attitude of recruiters is the most influential. While, 32% claimed that therncriteria for recruitment is not clear and understandable .And 32% said thatrn‘caring for children’ takes the upper hand for them, as a barrier to enterrnleadership positions followed by ‘getting married’. From among the personalrnbarriers ‘educational background’ and ‘Childhood background’ of femalernteachers had taken the lead in influencing factors. Based on the findings it isrnrecommended that policy makers, city Administration officer and immediaternsupervisors assert gender sensitive issues in the making of policies to hire orrnpromote principals

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