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| Impact of Mentorship on Women Entrepreneurship in Jos North Metropolis, Plateau State, Nigeria
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Margaret Inori Otor
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Abstract:
In many developing nations, particularly in Africa, men continue to hold the power and women are largely excluded from it and this has manifested itself in the workplace, entrepreneurship programs and influenced career opportunities afforded to women in the society. The slow progress in the transformation of household and economy indicators shows that there is need for a structural developmental approach for women's career advancement through entrepreneurship. Mentoring has been observed as a valuable development strategy and an affirmative action tool that can be used to support and promote women that have been viewed as previously disadvantaged to the economic growth. This study investigated the impact of mentoring on the growth of women entrepreneurship in Jos North Metropolis, Plateau State. The study specifically examined the impact of career support, psychological support and knowledge transfer as variables of mentorship on the contribution of women entrepreneurs to household and economy in Jos Metropolis. A cross-sectional survey design was adopted for this study and the population of the study was 384 [1]. The respondents were owners and employees of small scale businesses within Terminus Market and Tafawa Balewa Street of Jos North Metropolis. An optimized study was used to measure the validity and reliability of items on the questionnaire. Respondents data collected through self-administered questionnaire were analyzed using Mean, Standard Deviation and Regression Analysis. Hypotheses formulated was tested using Statistical Package for Social Sciences software. The study observed that career support has significant impact on the growth of women entrepreneurship (P.018); psychological support has significant impact on the growth of women entrepreneurship (P.000) and knowledge transfer has significant effect on the growth of women entrepreneurship (P.000).Mechanisms to support mentoring have not been established in Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau State, highlighting the urgency for policy makers, Non-Governmental organization to ensure that mentorship policies are put in place while increasing numerically the women entrepreneurship capacity. It also recommended among others that government should organize mentorship programmes for women entrepreneurs in Jos North to enable them have knowledge about business mentoring and the importance of transferring knowledge to enhance viability and growth of their entrepreneurship skills to facilitate their contribution to household and nations economy.
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