Gender Equity in Appointment of Principal Officers in University Administration: Implications for Implementation of Gender Policy in North-Central, Nigeria
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The objective of this study is to find out gender equity in appointment of principal officers in university administration: implications for implementation of gender policy in North-Central, Nigeria. The study adopted both secondary and primary methods of data collection; hence it is both qualitative and quantitative. The secondary data were drawn from national universities commission (2019) statistic data. On the other hand, the primary data were drawn from the authors’ observations and questionnaire administered to respondents. The population of this study comprises of all public universities in North-Central, Nigeria. Survey design method was employed. A simple size of 200 academic staff was selected from the population through simple sampling techniques. The Gender distribution questionnaire which was tagged (Gender Distribution of Principal Officers of Universities Questionnaire) was designed by the researchers and used for data collection. The questionnaire (GDPOUQ) was presented to experts in the area of Educational Research in the University of Abuja for face validation. Reliability of instrument was established by test retest reliability method with an index of 0.86. This procedure measured the degree of consistency overtime. A total of 200 copies of the questionnaire (GDPOUQ) were distributed out to the Academic staff in all the sampled public universities. Descriptive Statistics such as percentage distribution and standard deviation were used to analyze the data collected. The result revealed that there are low female in the leadership (principal officers) positions of public universities of public universities in North-Central Nigeria. The study also identified poor women education, poor implementation of gender policy in term of employment in the universities, cultural factors, religion factor, political factors and patriarchal practice across the country’s societies as factors responsible for low women leadership (principal officers) in public universities in North-Central Nigeria.
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Gender, Principal Officers, Public Universities