Abstract:
The objective of this study is to analyze factors affecting Women's Participation in Managerial
Positions in the Case of Chiro Woreda Public sectors. Both qualitative and quantitative
research approaches were collected. The data were collected using a structured and
unstructured questionnaire. Both primary and secondary data were used. The primary data was
collected from 222 respondents from the public sectors of the Chiro woreda. Whereas annual
reports, documents, journals, published articles, and the woreda’s quarterly reports were used
as secondary sources of data. The data was analyzed using both descriptive and inferential
statistics. From quantitative data analysis, descriptive statistics and binary logistic regression
statistical tools were used to assess factors affecting women's participation in managerial
positions. The findings of this study were several factors significantly influence the participation
of women in managerial positions. Education, salary, experience, and marital status have
notable impacts. Specifically, higher education, increased experience, and higher salary levels
positively affect the likelihood of women holding managerial positions. In contrast, being
married, certain positions, religiosity, personal factors, and socio-cultural factors negatively
influence this likelihood. The home life factor is not statistically significant in this model. This
means many demographic variables affect women's participation in managerial positions both
positively and negatively. Some of the explanations for this are low level of knowledge and lack
of awareness, low level of education, absence of institutions and institutional capacities in
implementing gender-based policy, politicization of women’s organizations, and deep-rooted
social-cultural mismanagements. Therefore, to improve such challenges to enhance women's
participation in managerial positions, government, community, NGO, and public heads should
play considerable roles.
