Abstract: Women in the world have a huge contribution for the economic, political and social development of nations. Teaching is one of the social aspect wherein women are involved. In the Ethiopian context, the participation of women in teaching, especially in higher education has been growing from time to time. However, information about their challenges is not well studied. Cognizant of this gap, this study attempted to explore the challenges of new graduated female instructors by taking Bahir Dar University as a case in point. To meet the objective of the study, qualitative method with the case study design was used. In this study, fifteen semi structure interviewees, five key informants’ six focus group discussants, were participated. All of the participants were selected by using non probability sampling technique specifically purposive sampling. Therefore, the data sources were primary data. Semi-structured interview, key informant interview and FGDs were used as a tool for collecting primary data. The data collected were analyzed using thematic analysis methods. The findings from the study revealed that new graduate female instructors faced challenges. Such as, lack of facilities, sexual harassment, negative attitudes of academic staffs, low communication problem, lack of mentoring, lack of orientation, and low skill of using technology. The study has concluded that new graduate female Instructors at the University faced several challenges.
Keywords: new graduated female instructors, challenges.
Title: Challenges of New Graduate Female Instructors: The Case of Bahir Dar University
Author: Genanew Jemberu
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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