Archives of Humanities & Social Sciences Research
- ISSN: 3065-3568
Asrat Dagnew Kelkay
The purpose of this study was to investigate the status of women’s participation in educational leadership. The participants were 106 teachers, 24 school leaders. The respondents were selected using stratified random sampling, purposive sampling and comprehensive sampling methods. The findings from the study revealed that, the perception of school leaders and teachers were high towards women leaders’ ability, skill and physical education competence. Despite their ability and competence women are still largely underrepresented in the leadership of primary schools. At the selfimage level such challenges as women still acknowledge the world as masculine, fear of balancing professional work and family responsibility, fear of success in achievement, lack of mentor and role models, reluctant of women to hold position of power, lack of awareness of organizational culture were found to be deterring women from taking leadership position. In addition, cultural challenges such as cultural and religious sentiment with regard women inferior to men, male prejudice reflect stereotype women have less acceptant than men in the society, misconception of the society about women roles, girls and boys are socialized different roles and expectation in the society were seen as major hindrance of women’ participation in educational leadership in the study area.