Impact of gender role stereotypes on academic achievement and interpersonal skill of female students: in the case of Arsi Negele Kilture preparatory school

Abstract

The objective of this study is to find out the impact of gender role stereotype and interpersonal skills on academic achievement among female students in Oromia region west Arsi zone Kilture preparatory school. The study was required on total sample of 173 out of 577 female students by using probability sampling technique. The researcher used both open ended close ended question to obtain the necessary and relevant data. The collected data also presented as percentage and table. The researcher find out that 67.63% (117) respondents are faced problem of gender related problem and 32.37(56%) were responses that they have no face problem of gender role stereotypes most of them faced academic problem 64(54.70%). From the GBV they faced largely psychological gender based violence 70(86.42%).The impact of gender role on academic achievement reduce motivation, withdrawal from school, feeling of lazy, loss of confidence, reduce concentration, loss of interest, lowself-esteem. The impact of gender role on interpersonal skill is that fear/anxiety, lack of confidence to communicate with opposite sex, and feeling of inequalities among sex