Businesses and organizations that fail to fully understand attitudes towards female as managers will limit their success. For organizations, uncovering employee’s attitudes about the ability of female to serve in managerial positions will affect the extent to which female are trained and developed for managerial positions or are assigned to supervisors who will encourage them and serve as mentors. Thus, the study aimed to examine socio economic determinants of attitude towards female mangers in private and public banks: a case of Bahir Dar city. The demographic information of employees was independent variables and attitudes towards female mangers was the dependent variable of the study. A total sample of 238 employees was selected by employing probability random sampling method. Enumerator administered schedule that has three sections was distributed to all the selected employees to collect the necessary primary data. Stratified sampling technique was used at the time of data collection. Descriptive and inferential statistical tools such as; frequency tables, percentages, means, standard deviations, and multiple regression were used to data analysis. The value of adjusted R Square obtained were 0.663, demonstrates that 66.3 percent of attitude variation towards female managers can be explained by the independent variables. Based on the statistical analysis, the variables namely gender, age, education level, and direct experience have found a significant influence on attitude towards female managers. The result indicates that significant differences were found on the basis of the above mentioned variables. However, no significant influence on attitude towards female managers were found on the basis of marital status and sector type of the employees.
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