Abstract:
In the world women participation at any managerial position were underrepresented for
decision making even for cases related with them. Women’s management participation in
Ethiopia has been a deep rooted problem. The aim of this paper is identifying Determinates
of Women Participation in Managerial Positions: The Case of Public office of Kacha Bira
Woreda. Both qualitative and quantitative research approaches was used. The data were
collected using structured and unstructured questionnaire.Both primary and secondary data
were collected. The primary data was collected from 313 respondents from the public office
of the kacha bira woreda. The data was analyzed using both descriptive and inferential
statistics. The finding of this study was socio-cultural factors, organizational cultural, work
place police and gender Strotypes affect women managerial position participation in the
study area. Also finding of this study show that Policies and legal frameworks constitute
some inherent problems while at the same time their implementation is not as it was
expected. Some of the explanations for this are low level of knowledge and lack of
awareness, absence of institutions and institutional capacities in implementing gender
based policy, politicization of women’s organization and deep rooted social-cultural
mismanagements. Therefore, to improve such challenges to enhance gender equality,
government, community, NGO and public heads should play considerable roles.
