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FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, The central issue in the feminist perspective of public administration concerns three pertinent factors: first, inclusion of women-friendly policies in governance; second, participation of women in public administration; and third, a change of attitude to the issue of ‘gender’ in administration. The feminist perspective of Public Administration argues that the administrative state is insensitive to the gender dimensions of political, economic and social factors because the very images of expertise, leadership and virtue that mark the defenses of administrative power contains dilemmas of gender that have not been addressed. The feminist problematizes women's historical exclusion from public administration theory and raises topics and questions neglected as a result., In her book, “Gender Images in Public Administration, Camilla Stivers (1993) argues that “these images not only have masculine features but help to keep in place or bestow political and economic privileges on the bearers of culturally masculine qualities at the expense of those who display culturally feminine ones.” She further contends that these characterizations “contribute to and is sustained by power relations in society at large that distribute resources on the basis of gender and affect people’s life chances and their sense of themselves.” Feminist therefore are of the view that Public Administration needs to be examined through the lens of gender, as “its public dimensions are revealed as gender dimensions”. This is because, according to Stivers,, The traditional public administration exists in space that:, Depends for its rationality and its coherence on the insubordination of women through their assignment to a set of duties that are always considered, no matter how requisite, less imperative and less creditable., Limits both women’s chances to partake in the public sphere and the amount of time and energy they have to devote to such activities. In her view, these are paradoxical term, Thus she highlights the masculine domain which overshadows the growth of gender neutral universal administration. Therefore, according to Camilla Stivers (2005), to be a feminist in Public administration ones needs to follow three things:, To the idea that gender is a crucially useful category of analysis, a framework or lens that enables one t see important things that otherwise remain obscured or invisible;, To a critical perspective on women’s current status and prospects; and, As Gerda Lerner puts it, to a “system of ideas and practices which assumes that men and women must share equally in the work, in the privileges, in the defining and dreaming of the world”., When it comes to conventional studies of public administration or public organizations, the feminist approaches to administration/organization have been generally concerned with two basic issues:, Identifying and reducing gender based inequalities, Promoting a more egalitarian workplace., In contemporary times, it has become an understood truth that keeping half the population away from the effective public participation or the criticality of false/imaginary feminine divide of private and to masculine public image of competent , would be detrimental to the progress and development of the country and world at large, and hence, renders the feminist perspective of public administration an indispensable perspective in the theory and practice of public administration.