Attitudes of Male and Female Teachers in Secondary Schools towards Yemeni Women's Participation in the Social and Political Development in the City of Sana'a (A Field Study)

Abstract

This study aimed at identifying the attitudes of male and female teachers in secondary schools towards Yemeni women's participation in the social and political development, which can be done through identifying the cognitive attitudes of these male and female teachers towards Yemeni women's participation in the social and political development, and identifying the sentimental attitudes of female teachers towards Yemeni women's participation in the social and political development, in addition to identifying the statistical significance differences (if any) between the attitudes of male and female teachers towards Yemeni women's participation in the social and political development and their different demographic features. To achieve the goals of this study, a random sample of male and female teachers in secondary schools in all the directorates of Sana'a was selected, and the questionnaire was used as a tool to collect information related to the sample of the study, which consisted of 400 teachers: (200) male teachers and (200) female teachers. Among the most important findings of the study was that the female teachers' cognitive attitudes in general were positive towards their participation in the social development, and their sentimental attitudes towards the political participation was undefined. However, the cognitive attitudes of male teachers were less positive than those of the female teachers towards Yemeni women's participation in both the social and political development. As for cognitive attitudes of male and female teachers towards the political participation of women, they undefined with different percentages. The findings of test (T) showed differences with statistical significance at the significance of (0.05 (α ≤in the cognitive attitudes in general between male and female teachers in their cognitive attitudes towards women's participation in the social and political development. These differences were caused by the sex variable. The findings of the analysis of the one level variance, which was also followed by the Toki test for binary comparisons, showed that there were differences with statistical significance at level (0.05 (α ≤in the cognitive attitudes of male and female teachers towards women's participation in the social development, and the social status was for the benefit of male and female teachers who have not been married, and the monthly income variable was for the benefit of male and female teachers whose income is (50000) riyals or more, and the number of family members variable was for the benefit of male and female teachers whose families consist of 6 members or more. The findings of the analysis of the one level variance, which was followed by the Toki test for binary comparisons, showed that there were differences with statistical significance at level (0.05 (α ≤between the cognitive attitudes of male and female teachers towards women's participation in the political development, and the monthly income variable was for the benefit of male and female teachers whose income is (50000) riyals or more, and the number of faculty members variable was for the benefit of male and female teachers whose families consist of 6 members or more. The sentimental attitudes of female teachers towards women's participation in the social development were positive, The findings of the analysis of the one level variance, which was followed by the Toki test for binary comparisons, showed that there were differences with statistical significance at level (0.05 (α ≤in the sentimental attitudes of female teachers towards women's participation in the political development, and the monthly income was for the benefit of female teachers whose income is (50000) riyals or more.