Attitudes of employees towards female leadership in North Gondar Zone, Debark

This research examined attitudes towards female leadership among employees working in the North Gondar zone of Debark applying an explanatory sequential mixed methods design and using a stratified random sampling technique, a total of 234 employees in debark were taken. WAMS (women as a managerial scale) is used for data collection. Accordingly, data were analyzed using SPSS version 20. The one-sample t-test shows that there is a statistically significant mean difference (t (233) =24.87, p 0.05) between the sample mean score and the hypothesized mean score of the instrument, and the result shows that most of the respondents have a positive attitude towards females in leadership. An independent sample t-test also indicated that there is a significant mean difference in the level of attitude towards women's leadership (t (232) = 3.16, p <0.05) between male and female respondents. However, the one-way ANOVA result indicated that there is no statistically significant mean difference in the level of attitude towards women's leadership (F = 0.94, df (4,230), p>0.05) among respondents of the study across age groups. One-way ANOVA also revealed that the level of attitudes towards women's leadership (F = 3.33, df (3,231), p 0.05) was found to be significant across the marital status of respondents. One-way ANOVA result also indicated that there is a significant mean difference in the level of attitudes towards women's leadership (F =3.05 df (4,230), P < 0.05) among respondents across educational status. The major problems that influence the attitudes of employees towards female leadership are social, psychological, and cultural in the study area.