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Women Participation in Leadership Roles of Private Higher Education Institutions of Ethiopia

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Aselefech Hailgiorgis Belete, Dr.Jignesh Valand
» doi: 10.48047/ecb/2023.12.si7.618

Abstract

Women are not well represented in higher education institutions leadership posts transversely in the globe in general and their figure become diminish in developing nations. Though women leadership and management possession in Ethiopian higher education institutions is a comparatively novel concept, its growth is not yet showed well in academic literatures. The study used a descriptive phenomenology research design and the data from the participants were organized by employing in detail face to face and telephone interview sessions. Also data were gathered through documents and manuscript assessment. This study aspires to deal with this concept by probing women higher-ranking leadership improvement, involvement, feature and inclination based on the observations and exposures of women superior leaders from privately owned universities. The findings point out that even though women have made important advancement in obtaining higher-ranking leadership posts, senior leadership secured for men where women are infrequently seen. The outcomes of this study disclose that women have supposed leadership excellence and offerings. The findings advocate that increasing women leadership and management progress needs giving guidance, coaching and prospects particularly intended at developing women to higher-ranking leadership roles, and make certain regular maintenance of women leadership improvement agendas. The study recommended that the training programs and seminars are contributing less to making women successful in leadership. This happened because of less availability of leadership-related training programs and seminars that equip females in the skill of leadership. Therefore, higher education institutions should facilitate different leadership skill-building training and seminars to develop women to the position of management. That is, the university should organize different seminars, training, and mentoring programs in order to create more opportunities for women to make them participate in a leadership position

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