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Sociocultural Beliefs And Women Leadership In Sanyati District, Christine Mwale, Obediah Dodo
Sociocultural Beliefs And Women Leadership In Sanyati District, Christine Mwale, Obediah Dodo
Journal of Sustainable Social Change
This study explored the level of women participation in leadership identifying some of the challenges thereto in the selected rural district of Sanyati, Zimbabwe. The study sought to address the following aspects: roles of women in Sanyati, sociocultural beliefs with regards to leadership, and the depth of the effects of women’s nonparticipation in leadership. The research guided by the role congruity theory was qualitative in nature trying to understand human behavior and experience influenced by sociocultural norms. Research population composed of chiefs, headmen, village heads, elderly women and men, and councilors who had a sound appreciation of the subject. Twenty-seven …