Women in Technical Occupations and Insecurity: Workplace Skills for Enhanced Child-Care Support
Abstract
Mothers? financial status and contribution to their children upbringing are usually considered as critical determinants of children?s subsequent involvement in juvenile delinquency. Apparently, mothers in technical occupations are open to enhanced income when remained relevant and progressive in the place of work. Keeping abreast with requisite occupational skills and competence is preeminent for continual progression and relevance in such jobs. This paper determines the challenges faced by women in achieving an improved income from their services. Two research questions and two null hypotheses guided the study. The instrument used for data collection was a 31-item researchers? structured questionnaire of 5-point Likert scale duly validated by three experts. The reliability was established using split half method which yielded 0.9 Correlation Coefficient. SPSS version 26 was used to analyze the data. The research questions were answered using mean and standard deviation while independent t-test analysis was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Among others, the study revealed that programming skills, work ethics and guidelines awareness competence, team work skills as well as environmental Awareness competence are the most highly needed skill/competences for improved performance of women in technological occupations. It was therefore, recommended among others that organized programmes on skills upgrade needs skills and the strategies could help women in technological occupations enhance their relevance in workplaces, and that curriculum development bodies such as the NUC, NBTE, NCCE should also ensure that the curriculum for teaching aspiring female graduates in skilled technological field contains contents that will expose them to these skills for improved career performance in the 21st century.
