Gender equality and women empowerment in selected private institutions in Somaliland
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Date
2012
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Kampala International University(KIU)
Abstract
The study analyzed "gender equality and women empowerment in selected private
institutions of Somaliland".
The research study was guided with the following predetermined objectives:
1. To determine the level of gender equality in the selected private institutions
2. To analyze the level of women empowerment in the selected institutions
3. To identify whether there was significant differences between gender equality
and women empowerment in the selected private institutions
The study used cross-sectional correlation design where 160 questionnaires were
distributed out of a population of 1600 individuals. Frequencies and percentages were
used with the use of Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS).
The study found out that there is still gender inequality in Somaliland where business
private companies showed limited engagement of women and at the same time
unfavourable policies that negates women. On !he other hand, the study proved the
increment of female employees in general but again this proved limited empowerment
to women entirely.
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Gender, Women in Private Institutions, Women Rights, Privatization, Gender Equality, Somalia