Personal and Socio-Economic Factors and Women’s Participation in the Administrative and Planning Process in Nigerian Universities

Abstract

Investigations into factors that affect the administrative and planning process
on women participation in Nigerian universities have attracted the interest
and concern of researchers, university administrators, educational planners
and stakeholders in educational sector in Nigeria. Different factors are
capable of influencing the administrative and planning process of women
participation such as home-school conflict, professional leadership style
and financial constraints. One research question was posed and four research
hypotheses were formulated while a total number of 120 female
administrators and planners were randomly sampled from four (4) public
universities in Nigeria. A questionnaire was designed and used to collect
data from the sampled respondents. Pearson Product Moment Correlation
Co-efficient and multiple regressions were used to analyze the collected
data at 0.05 level of significance. The result shows that there was a
significant relationship among professional leadership styles, home-school
conflicts and financial constraint at 0.543; 0.467 and 0.515 respectively
and women’s participation in administrative and planning process in Nigerian
public universities. It is, therefore, recommended that women should gain leadership
experience on how to organize themselves better for effective contribution towards
administrative and planning processes in Nigerian universities.