Abstract
This paper examines those factors that affect Women Empowerment in public universities in Ethiopia a total of 400 respondents were selected and only 382 were collected for further analysis. The analysis was made using regression analysis to predict the impact of a personal, social and institutional factor on women empowerment in Ethiopian public higher education. The finding shows that personal had a beta value of.23, whereas the social factor had a beta of social .40, and the organizational factors had a beta value of .38. This shows social and institutional factor more affects women empowerment in Ethiopian public universities and personal factor had less effect on their empowerment. Hence, the government shall work on improving the social and organzatoal framework to empower more girls. Keywords : Institutional factors; Public universities; personal; social factors DOI : 10.7176/JAAS/56-05 Publication date :June 30 th 2019
Highlights
Women empowerment that refers to increasing the spiritual, political, social, educational, gender or economic strength of individuals and communities of women has been tremendously discussed in many types of research and get global recognition, in spite of the golden age of women which was ushered in by the Berlin Conference of 1995[1]
Females are regarded as the inferior of the species. They are denied access to both honored and utilitarian role open only to males and most continue to suffer from occupational segregation in the workplace and rarely break through the so-called glass ceiling in public life which separates them from top-level management and professional position [2]
This research aims to see facto affecting women empowerment in Ethiopia where Women comprises about 49.9% of the estimated Ethiopian population of 106 million [4]
Summary
On this competitive arena the role of women in the development of economic, social and political issues is valuable, due to several social, personal and institutional factors their roles has been tackled and their ability and potential become hinder that can boost all sectors irrespective of their objective, that leads as to the concept of women empowerment.Women empowerment that refers to increasing the spiritual, political, social, educational, gender or economic strength of individuals and communities of women has been tremendously discussed in many types of research and get global recognition, in spite of the golden age of women which was ushered in by the Berlin Conference of 1995[1].Women's continue to be disadvantaged when it comes to public participation both in the public and private sectors of society [2]. On this competitive arena the role of women in the development of economic, social and political issues is valuable, due to several social, personal and institutional factors their roles has been tackled and their ability and potential become hinder that can boost all sectors irrespective of their objective, that leads as to the concept of women empowerment. Females are regarded as the inferior of the species. Because of this, they are denied access to both honored and utilitarian role open only to males and most continue to suffer from occupational segregation in the workplace and rarely break through the so-called glass ceiling in public life which separates them from top-level management and professional position [2]. This research aims to see facto affecting women empowerment in Ethiopia where Women comprises about 49.9% of the estimated Ethiopian population of 106 million [4]
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