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

Investigations into factors that affect the administrative and planning processon women participation in Nigerian universities have attracted the interestand concern of researchers, university administrators, educational plannersand stakeholders in educational sector in Nigeria. Different factors arecapable of influencing the administrative and planning process of womenparticipation such as home-school conflict, professional leadership styleand financial constraints. One research question was posed and four researchhypotheses were formulated while a total number of 120 femaleadministrators and planners were randomly sampled from four (4) publicuniversities in Nigeria. A questionnaire was designed and used to collectdata from the sampled respondents. Pearson Product Moment CorrelationCo-efficient and multiple regressions were used to analyze the collecteddata at 0.05 level of significance. The result shows that there was asignificant relationship among professional leadership styles, home-schoolconflicts and financial constraint at 0.543; 0.467 and 0.515 respectivelyand women’s participation in administrative and planning process in Nigerianpublic universities. It is, therefore, recommended that women should gain leadershipexperience on how to organize themselves better for effective contribution towardsadministrative and planning processes in Nigerian universities.