Changing the Socio-cultural Implications of Gender Mainstreaming in Working Places and Revisiting the Current Statuesque

Project Report from the year 2016 in the subject Psychology - Social Psychology, Addis Ababa University (School of Psychology), course: Social program development and Evaluation, language: English, abstract: Scholars began to study gender and organizations to understand better the dimensions of and reasons for continuing inequality between women and men in the workplace and the economy. Most research on gender structures has been done in public and private employing organizations, but researchers have also examined voluntary organizations such as religious groups, charitable organizations, and sports associations. Although gender patterns in organizations vary between the public and private sectors and between different sectors of the private economy, as well as between different societies. In doing so the main rationale of the program is to revisit the gender based programs that are established in the country (Ethiopia) and further develop a practical approach that contributes to the fullest potential of the gender mainstreaming and its longer effect in each and every civil servants. In other words, the society at large and the application of this social program will substantiated by different projects that are framed on the basis of the program at hand.

Yakob Tilahun Yimer is an Ethiopian who previously worked as a Social Affairs Researcher & Senior Policy Researcher (Governance Affairs) in the Office of the Legislative House of Ethiopia and currently works as a Senior Social Safeguard Expert at the World Bank-financed GEQIP-E Progam in the Ethiopian Ministry of Education. Regarding his educational background, he has earned a B.A degree in Psychology, a B.A degree in Sociology, and an M.A. degree in Social Psychology from Addis Ababa University.