Women and Unemployment in Bahir Dar City, Ethiopia: Determinants and Consequences

Even if women make up half of the world’s population, their contribution to measured economic activity, growth, and well-being is far below its potential. Besides, employment of women in economic sectors has important effect on their life, family and the country as a whole. However, the gap between women and men in paid employment remains wide in many parts of the world. These issues of women encompassing determinants and consequences of unemployment on them are not well articulated. Thus, the main objective of this study was to examine the socio-cultural and demographic determinants of employment status of women and the consequence of unemployment on women in Bahir Dar City, Amhara region. To carry out this study, mixed research approach specifically convergent parallel design was used. To investigate this, primary and secondary data sources were utilized. Additionally, questioner and in-depth interview were used as the data gathering instruments for quantitative and qualitative respectively. Besides, 388 respondents were selected by using simple random sampling technique for quantitative technique and 11 participants were selected by purposive sampling technique for qualitative technique. The analytical techniques used in this study were descriptive statistics such as frequency of tables as well as cross tabulation and binary logistic regression for quantitative data and thematic way of data analysis for qualitative one. The descriptive statistics result showed that 61.1