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Gendered Political Leadership Trends and Future Prospect in Tanzania: a Lesson from Ileje District Council
Abstract
This study examines the gendered political leadership trend and future prospects of in
Tanzania by taking experience from Ileje district council in Songwe region of Tanzania.
This study adopted feminist legal theory as a base in examining the men – women relations
in political leadership. The study was cross-sectionally designed whereby data were
collected at a single time with a good mix of qualitative and quantitative approaches to
inductively and deductively study the underrepresentation of women in political leadership
positions. The study applied two major methods of data collection which are; the
documentary review method which used a checklist tool and the questionnaire survey
method which used questionnaires as tools which were designed in the Kobo Toolbox and
the link was distributed through WhatsApp groups of women from three wards namely;
Mlale, Itumba and Isongole found in Ileje District Council whereby 130 respondents fully
participated and submitted the completed questionnaires. The study found that women's
participation in contesting for political positions was generally low. Also, the trend and
prospects of women’s political representation were very low, and achieving gender parity in
political leadership is not promising. The study recommends that the government and
stakeholders of gendered political leadership should address all major hindrances of
achieving gender parity in political leadership while obeying the nature of the dichotomy of
men-women relations.
