Abstract:
This research was conducted on “Women Participation in School Leadership in Government Secondary Schools of Dendi Woreda in West Shoa Zone”. The main objective of the study was to investigate the major factors affecting women's school leadership in secondary schools of DendiWoreda, West Shoa Zone, and Oromia Regional State. The study employeddescriptive designs using a quantitative research approach. The population of the study was teachers of the selected schools. Of the population, only 92 teachers were used for data analysis. The simple random sampling method was used to identify the sample from the population and the data collected from respondents. The collected data was analyzed using SPSS software version 25; to analyze the collected data descriptive statistics (means, and standard deviations) were used. As the result, the study revealed that women aspire to seek and apply for educational leadership positions due to social-cultural factors, organizational (school) culture factors, gender stereotypes factors, and workplace policy factors. All the same, it was found that women have still been underrepresented in educational leadership. It was also found that socio-cultural beliefs and practices; family and home responsibilities, as well as institutional factors, affected women’s participation in educational leadership. From the findings, the study concludes that women have low participationin leadership positions. Besides that, different barriers that affect the social and psychological development of women limit their participation in educational leadership. The overall recommendation of the study was to improve women’s aspirations, awareness creation, and raising programsshould be conductedby providing training, workshops, and experience sharing
