Abstract:
The purpose of the study was to investigate the attitudinal change of the
stakeholders(teachers, principals, vice principals, sub-city educational bureau
department heads) and the effectiveness of the gender policy towards women’s
participation in principal ship in government and private secondary school of Addis
Ababa city administration. The study sites were at Bole and Arada sub-city
educational bureaus and secondary schools. The study population consists 8
educational bureau department heads, 20 government, 19 private secondary school
principals, 38 private and 40 government vice principals, 68 government and 17
private secondary school female teachers, 246 government secondary school male
teachers and 118 private male teachers and also 16 women’s affairs. Department
heads were included in both sub-cities. From these 100% of female teachers and
70% of male teachers were included to fill the questionnaires which consists of 85
female teachers and 264 male teachers were selected using simple random sampling
specifically lottery method. The data was collected using questionnaires, interview
and focus group discussion as instrument. The study employed descriptive survey
method because it was preferred as it enables to make investigations with prediction,
narration of events, comparisons and drawing conclusions based on the information
obtained from relatively large and representative sample of the target population. The
findings of this study indicated that there is still low participation of women in
secondary school principal ship and the attitude and challenges like misperception of
stakeholders, women conflict of roll between their professional duty and family issues,
women’s poor self image remain unchanged. It also revealed that there is a gap in
creating awareness in implementation of policies, rules and regulations in people’s
attitude towards women’s secondary school principal ship. Issues like competency of
female principals is not included in this study and the researcher recommended other
researchers investigate such issues. Recommendations such as women should be
given opportunities of training and higher education’s were made on the basis of
conclusions.
