Women In Politics

are available have shown this trend that women are the least represented in local councils and local governance structures. According to Graff I, (2003), it is evident that if women are to enjoy justice, freedom, equal rights with men, they themselves have to do the necessary work and obtain these goals. No one, no matter how powerful, will be able to give women de facto equal rights and control of their own lives, these are rights every woman has to strive for. Political participation is one of the ways through which these goals can be achieved.

Marginalization of women in politics is largely unfair because politics provides an avenue for women to have an input in laws that govern them, the ways they are applied, and the general affairs of

Again, women are seen as the livewires of various units such as the family, community etc., they are generally regarded as more meticulous in their ways of doing things thus implying that women possess a great potential which can be put to good use in politics and other spheres of political life (Dolphyne, 1991). Hambrook (2006) argues that the presence of women stands for change at all levels and in all spheres of life. She notes that women have a marked interest for changes; as such promotion of gender equality in politics will bring about the much needed change, the increased presence of women in politics at local level would definitely showcase a forward movement in the area for a

According to Saunders (2009), research philosophy directly relates to the development of the body of knowledge and the nature of that knowledge. Lloyd (1999), echoing similar sentiments to the manner in which data can be collected, analysed and used stated that the philosopher’s main concern is not with what people observe but with the ideas or concepts that they employ and the assumptions they make and the arguments they advance about these observations.

There are three broad types of research philosophy. These are epistemology, ontology and axiology (Mkanzi and Aiamah Acheanpong, 2012). The Western tradition of science identified these research philosophies as positivist, sometimes called scientific, idealism and interpretivist also known as anti-positivist. (Galliers, 1991). According to Levin, (1998), positivists believe that reality is stable and can be observed and described from an objective point of view for instance without necessarily interfering with the phenomena that is under study. Under this paradigm, phenomena should be isolated and observations should be repeatable and this more often involves the manipulation of reality with variations in only a single a independent variable so as to identify regularities in, and to form relationships between, some of the constituent elements of the social world. Positivism philosophy is commonly used in natural science and