Assessment Of Factors Affecting Women Socio-Economic Development: The Case Of Wolaita Sodo Town Women Association.
Journal Title: International Journal of Business and Management Invention - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 3
Abstract
Women’s participation in the economic sphere is narrow and largely limited to domestic work and low paying menial jobs in the formal economic sphere due to social, economic, political and other factors. Thus,this study was conducted to assess factors that affect the socio economic development of women at Wolaita Sodo town. Primarily, the study is explanatory in nature and the data used in this paper is mainly primary but to some extent secondary data as well, quantitative and qualitative types of data was incorporated. In doing this research, 50 respondents were taken using a simple random sampling. A questionnairecontaining both open and closed ended questions was distributed. The collected data was analyzed by using both descriptive and inferential statistics. After data was coded and organized, statistical package for social sciences’ software was used to analyze and further cleaning. The finding of study revealed that in Wolaita Sodo town the majority of respondents were having an educational status 10-12 grades. The data shows that women had lower socio economic participation when compared with male counterpart. In addition, the finding of the study exhibited socio-cultural attitudes; lack of asset, gender inequality, religion factor and lack of collateral to access to credit were significantly associated with challenges of women socio-economic development on multivariate analysis at p-value less than 0.05. Moreover, there is traditional belief that considering women as weaker section of society. Hence, it is recommended that the government and other concerned bodies should work together with NGO’s and other organization to strengthen women socio-economic development through providing different skill training, diversification sources of women income, and so on.
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Temam Gebu Duressa, Naol Soboksa Megersa
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