Abstract:
Women have Unique Qualities of Leadership .The objective of this thesis is assessing the factors
that affecting women participation in leadership position in public sectors. It also aimed to
identify the major factors that hinder women participation in leadership position and to evaluate
the effect of gender gap in leadership position. In order to meet the objective, descriptive and
explanatory research design was used. Both qualitative and quantitative research approach
used to analyze and interpret data. The data collected by questionnaires and interview for
selected public sectors head office and employees to explain the current gender practices in the
woreda and assessing the factors for low representation of women in leadership position.
Consequently, probability and non-probability sampling techniques were used to selects the
respondents and to make discussants the researches .Selected data analyzed by descriptive
statistics, chi square test and binary logistic regression. . Women face multi-faced challenges to
participate in leadership position due to different factors. the majority of leadership positions
were occupied by men leaders and the representations of women in leadership and decision
making positions are almost insignificant. The Woreda Council has approved the appointments of
new cabinet members indicate that from the total 31 cabinet only 9 in public sectors in
EjereWoreda are women .Similarly EjereWoreda Civil Service Office Annual Report (2012)
indicate that from the total of 31 Woreda public sectors women leader occupied only 3 office/. In
other hands, from the total of 8 vise and leaders only 6 were women. From this, we can see that
women are still in the minority in key areas and decision making positions and the further up the
hierarchy the greater the disparity of the women in the sectors. This low participation of women
in leadership also has an impact on growth and development of the woreda. This research is
based on the fact that there are less female leaders than men leaders, both in country and in the
region as well as in woreda level. The findings indicate that women are highly underrepresented
in leadership position due to some factors such factors are organizational factors and work place
policies which are major cause. Due to these factors women participation in leadership and
decision making position was insignificants and get less confidence for the position. In order to
minimize those factors woreda needs to implement leadership skill training and affirmative action
to enhance participation of women in leadership position and providing different training plan t
