Social Organizations and Gender Education in Cameroon Universities
Keywords:
social organization, Gender disparity, Gender Education, Higher EducationAbstract
This study was sets out to assess the impact of social organizations on the promotion of gender education in Cameroon. social organizations constitutes an obstacles in enhancing educational equality at tertiary level and as such, prevents students especially female students from fostering their educational careers at higher levels hereby, preventing them from becoming pertinent actors in the socio-political and economic development of the nation. Within the context of this study, the social learning theory, the gender schema theory, the standpoint theory and the psychoanalytic theory were used to support the study. The study was carried out using the mixed method qualitative and quantitative research method whereby, the main instruments for data collection were the questionnaire, focus group discussion guide and interview guide. The simple random sampling techniques and the purposeful sampling techniques were used to obtain a sample size of 420 for the study. Content analysis was used to analyze qualitative data. The statistical instrument used to analyze quantitative data was the spearman rank correlation and the following results were obtained. Hypothesis three: In the third hypothesis, it was concluded that the nature of Social organizations significantly affects the promotion of gender education in higher education. This is based on the fact that the correlation index of 0.657show a positive and strong link between the variables under study. Based on these findings, recommendations were made to the various stake holders concerned.
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