Women involvement in the decision making at the local level in Madi rural municipality
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Department of Sociology
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This study entitled ‘Women Involvement in the Decision Making at the Local Level
in Madi-Municipality’ was carried out in order to analysis the decision making role of
social and economic sector and to identify the role of women in resource mobilization
in their utilization. The objectives of this study are to explore the causing factors of
women’s involvement in decision making at the local level as well as the
consequences of women’s involvement in the decision making at the local level. This
study is guided by the following data collection tools and techniques: interview
schedule, observation method, focus group discussion, key informants information
and case study. This study is mainly based on primary data collected from Madi rural
manucipality-6. According to statistical table the total number of women of 670 is
242 sample sizes by using of purposive sampling techniques All collected data were
checked, coded classified and tabulated to make more clear percentage were used to
analyzed the different aspects related to this study. It was found that most of the
women involved in household activities have low decision and policies making power
and they have sub-ordinate role in family and society. They are deprived from their
right and responsibility. They have low decision and policies making power due to
their male counter parts. In major household activities, men played dominant role in
decision making. The female who have higher education background and employed
have higher decision making power than merely illiterate households. As our country
is male dominant, males have superior status in most of the cases and female have to
follow them. It was also found that females have low socio-economic status and these
lay behind men in household decision making thus, if is essential to improve their
ability and capacity of participate major in decision making process. Unless females
are brought in the main stream development process, if it is impossible to develop
society as well as the nation thus, the female have responsibility to complete the work
they can’t decide at the moment, they have to ask for it.
In conclusion, lack of education (illiterate) and male dominant society is the main
reasons to be involved in household activities. Though there are many NGO and
INGO etc. have to work empower and increase the policies and program to enhance
the capability of female rather than involved in household activities and to improve to
females decision and policies making power.