Tanzanian Female Engineers: Exploring Employment of Female Engineers in Tanzania
2024
Greibesland, Helene
This thesis explores the social, cultural, economic, and political factors that create barriers for female engineers’ employment in Tanzania. By taking a multidisciplinary and interpretive approach the thesis discusses findings from fieldwork in Tanzania in relation to secondary data. The thesis sheds light on social, cultural, and political structures stemming from the colonial past and the African socialist Ujamaa period that are hindering women from fully taking part in the engineering sector. Barriers to female engineers’ employment that are revealed through this thesis are corruption, trust deficit, low perception of Tanzanian engineering skills, competition from foreign companies, gender structures in Tanzania, and maternity leave. This in turn reveals the gendering of the engineering workforce in Tanzania. By doing so the thesis contributes to acknowledging that women need to be included in the engineering workforce and recognizing the barriers will enable policymakers, organizations, and governmental and non-governmental institutions to implement programs, policies, and interventions to enhance female representation and inclusion in the engineering field in Tanzania, and perhaps other developing countries, to reach their development goals of economic growth and gender equality.
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