Abstract: Political parties are among the most important institutions for nurturing active participation of women in political party leadership due to the enormous political influence they wield. The exclusion of women from decision-making bodies limits the possibilities for entrenching the principles of democracy in a society, thus hindering sustainable development and discouraging the attainment of gender equality. The study determined the factors that influence women’s participation in political party leadership. The study adopted a mixed research design which employed qualitative and quantitative approaches. A sample of 113 respondents was selected from a total population of 164 (NEC, Secretariat, Women’s league and CEC). Stratified random sampling was used to select the sample population and classified it into strata and random simple sampling to select the sub samples from each stratum. Data was collected using a structured self-administered questionnaire, key informant interview and observations. Data was further analyzed using percentiles; descriptive and inferential statistics. The findings established that 73.7% of the respondents acknowledged that women actively participate in political party leadership. Policies, institutional culture and resources received more than 80% rating for influencing women’s participation in political party leadership. Policies and existing resources has a strong positive influence at coefficient level of 0.000 (.501** and .648**respectively), whereas institutional culture (.380**) has a moderately positive correlation all accounting for 49% (R Square, 0. 492) of the variation in women’s participation in political party leadership at an F value of 29.368. Government, political parties, CSO’s, development agencies and the women’s movement should design programs that specifically address the leadership capacity, economic, and social protection needs of the women to promote active participation of women in political party leadership.
Keywords: Leadership; Women’s Participation; Political parties.
Title: Factors Affecting Women’s Participation in Political Party Leadership in Uganda (Case Study of the National Resistance Movement Political Party, Kampala)
Author: Aciro Hope Rita, Professor Peter. A. Kopoka
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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