Department of Rural development and Regional Planning, Institute of Rural Development Planning, P.O. Box 138, Dodoma, Tanzania
Online published on 22 January, 2015.
This study was conducted in Dodoma urban district, Dodoma region to examine the opportunities women have as employees and challenges they meet in work places. The study specifically intended to find out about women empowerment at work place in Tanzania; opportunities and the challenges faced by women at various levels of organizations when doing their job. A total of 100 women who were employed in several government and private organizations were interviewed to collect the information required.
The paper indicated that women have a large contribution and important positions within the society and at work places in particular. They have the opportunities like training, education and career development opportunity, opportunities of becoming leaders, promotion to different job positions; participate in trade unions and availability of women-friendly policies and laws. The findings of this study indicated that, although there were different measures undertaken to ensure women empowerment at workplaces, there were challenges women face including; poor involvement of women in decision making, poor working conditions, African tradition and culture, poor representations at trade unions, gender bias in recruitment and sexual harassment at workplace.
