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2023 Faculty of Business and Management IAA JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

Women’s Participation and Management of Primary Schools in Ibare Sub- County: Bushenyi District, Uganda.

Kusingiza Christine; Samanya Bulhan

Globally, the education sector needs to improve its professional recruitment in promotinggender balance and women who can succeed in addressing current and future challenges.The aim of this study was to investigate the correlation between participation of womenand management of primary school in Bushenyi district. This study employed the ex postfacto/retrospective and descriptive survey designs (descriptive comparative anddescriptive correlation). In this study, the respondents recapitulated information (ex postfacto/retrospective) as asked in the questionnaires for woman participation andmanagement. Further, the study described the characteristics of the respondents in termsof certain variables such as socio-demographic profile, and effect relationship between theindependent variables (woman participation) and dependent variable (management). Thestudy employed both quantitative and qualitative approaches. The results showed thatwomen are top-notch managers and women disciplinary teachers have improved primaryschools. Also the study implies that women have high emotional levels so they can beequally challenged in administration. In conclusion, women can act as head teachers ofschools and head of departments at Ibare Sub-County.