| dc.description.abstract | Women have increasingly become more involved in the workforce following World War II. Paid employment of women has shifted from primarily traditional female-oriented jobs to more non-traditional and previously male-oriented academics. The purpose of this study was to find out the determinants of academic advancement of female teachers.
Specifically, the study established how sex stereotype factors influenced academic advancement among female teachers, explored how academic balance factors influenced academic advancement among female teachers, assessed how professional experience influenced academic advancement among female teachers, examined how economic factors influenced academic advancement among female teachers in Bumula Division. The study population was female teachers and headteachers employed by TSC in public primary schools in Bumula Division.
The study adopted the descriptive survey design with both quantitative and qualitative aspects. A total of 36 headteachers and 180 female teachers took part in the study in which purposive sampling and random sampling techniques were used to select them. Data was collected using questionnaires and interview schedules. The data collected was then coded and organized into frequencies and percentages then presented in form of tables and figures.
Data analysis was done using SPSS version. The results of the study indicated that female teachers academic advancement has dragged with time because most of the respondents revealed negatively (50%) on female teachers academic advancement. 45.3% strongly agreed that female teachers are challenged with schoollhome chores, 50% of the respondents agreed that the community invests little in female teacher education advancement, while 60% of female teachers themselves want to advance in academics.
As per the findings, female education has not been properly planned for and still there is a sign of transitional behaviours that should be addressed by other fellow researcher's or governmem to make Bumula division be among other parts of the county in realizing the potential needs of female education either SOCially, physically or economically; otherwise the situation still calls for more research study. | en_US |
