Diversity management and its impact on career advancement of women in Nigerian tertiary institutions

Abstract

The research was carried out to determine the diversity management on career advancement of women in Abubakar Tatari Ali Polytechnic, Bauchi. A simple random sampling technique was used in selecting 250 respondents for the study. Data were collected using structured questionnaire and analysed using both descriptive and inferential statistical analysis. The result of study shows the response rate where by 250 questionnaires were distributed in which 89% were returned and 11% were missing out of which 12% were rejected and 88% were used for the analysis. Furthermore, the correlation test found that correlation exist between the variables, therefore the condition is adequate and sufficient from conducting regression analysis. Regression analysis reveals that some of the independent variables are significant predictors of women career advancement while others have shown predictive power against women career advancement but with insignificant effects. The study concluded that age discrimination, fairness experience, gender inequality and religion discrimination were factors positively and negatively affecting women career advancement. It is recommended therefore, that government and organizations need to keep and sustain women in the workforce, utilize their skills and knowledge to develop highly functioning society for long-term development. To achieve this, organizations needed to create an enabling environment whereby women were effectively integrated, empowered and encouraged to continuously seek for career advancement.