Causes And Effects Of Gender Inequality In Public Sectors Of Liban Jawi District, West Showa Zone, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia

Abstract

There are different causes of gender inequality as the concept of gender is widened issues. The purpose of this study is to identify the causes and effects of gender inequality and exploring current interventions to address gender equality in public sector as respondent’s perception in Liban Jawi woreda. The study employed the mixed research method for comprehensive and better understanding. The target population for this study was 135 out of 397 employees. The study area selected by purposively because it’s inhabitant of the researcher and unavailability of previously conducted researches that related with gender inequality. The sectors also selected as purposively on women sectors manager, have gender mainstreaming focal person or structure, sectors those governments focuses as working on poverty reduction sector. The respondents from the selected sectors were selected by probability sampling as proportion of the employees. The instruments used to gather primary data questionnaires; key informant interview, focus group discussion and personal observation were prepared and used whereas for secondary data different related research, books and internet were used. Descriptive statistics such as percentage table and different graphs were employed for data analysis. The SPSS version 20 for window is used. Based on The data analysis the following findings were recorded according to respondents perceived. The causes of gender inequality were interconnected with social, psychological, organizational and economical causes. The chi-square also indicated that all social, organizational, psychological and economical causes as a causes of gender inequality in public sector. Those are existences of traditional attitude, lack of information for women in decision making, lack of opportunity for women in decision making, double burden for the women in the house, lack of policy to support women, lack of accessible training facility on gender issue, lack of gender mainstreaming professionals in public sector, absences of male participation for women empowerment, fearing of women to speech on their right and biological or natural difference which respondents perceived and lack of finances for education and giving train. The effects of gender inequality were loss of human power, increase gender based discrimination and violence, high women dependency, constraints the organization to achieve its desired goal, participation of women in low position, loss of women participation in management and decision making, increase feminization of poverty. Achieving gender equality and eradicating gender inequality in the study were needs many works. To minimize these problems the following solutions are recommended; facilitating or arrange the trainings to aware the employees on gender equality, employee the gender mainstreaming professionals in public sectors, create cooperation between women’s and creating women’s association in public sector and inviting nongovernmental organization those working on gender equality. Key word: Gender, Gender Inequality, Public s