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Item Factors Affecting Women's Participation in Leadership and Decision Making in Bizet Woreda, Tigray, Ethiopia.(Mekelle University, 2025-01-28) Hadera KahsayWomen have been faced different challenges to participate in leadership position, due to different factors. Practically as we know, there were less women leaders than men leaders both at country and organizational level. The purpose of this study is to assess the factors that hinder women’s participation on leadership, in Bizet woreda, Tigray, Ethiopia. The data were collected by questionnaire, and interview via considering a purposive sampling for the qualitative interviews, while a stratified random sampling method was used for survey. The data was described through inferential statistics techniques. The find of the study reviled that women were found having interest to upgrade in the field of leadership profession. With few of them were interested to expert. The finding also identified major hindering for women participation on leadership such as personal, socio-cultural, and educational. Effectively applying quota system and gender sensitive planning were found to be the first and second effective mechanism that help decision-makers and raise women participation in leadership. Finally, the recommended mechanisms which for women leadership empowerment are, raising and bringing attitudinal change be undertaken by Woreda administrative offices through training, experience share and workshops, modifications in selection and placement criteria, giving quota to compete with men, family and home responsibility can be minimized by having family-friendly policies to improve the pressures of home responsibility.