By Nnolum Ijeoma Echiamaka
Despite major efforts and some progress over the last decades by government and private organizations, women continue to be disadvantaged in comparison with men in many aspects of life. Women are relegated to background in all aspects of life; be it political, economic, training and education, deployment and even socio-cultural. The problems of sex-role typing, glass ceiling effect and discrimination in the workplace are form of gender issues which impeded Human Resource Management. Problems arising from these issues are found to have negative consequences on the work role of female workers. Therefore, the study was designed to investigate gender issues and Human Resource Management in some selected twenty secondary schools in Enugu state Ministry of Education. The nature of this research made it imperative for both primary and secondary data to be used. The population of study consists of the eight hundred and fifty (850) secondary school teachers. The sample size was 20 teachers from twenty (20) public schools in Enugu state. In all 400 teachers are sampled and they all received questionnaires. The sampling procedure used was the Stratified random sampling procedure. The responses from questionnaire were used to test the hypotheses formulated. Data collected were presented and analyzed using frequency table. This is statistically presented using a simple percentage formula. It was found that gender issues as it relates to Human Resource Management has been as a result of socio- cultural attachment given to men as head and women as subordinates. It was also the opinion of the respondents that low educational attainment among women hinders effective Human Resource Management. Based on the study summary and conclusion, the researcher gave many recommendations which included attempt to soften male- centered structures in workplace in order to ensure equal opportunity to both male and female in the process of developing and managing Human Resources efficiently and effectively. The recommendations also pointed out that training and formal education is important to ensure that the potentials of both males and females are tapped optimally.