REPOSITIONING OF WOMEN FOR EFFECTIVE PARTICIPATION IN POLITICS: A STUDY OF SOUTH- EAST GEO- POLITICAL ZONE OF NIGERIA

📄 Project Abstract

The thrust of this study was the examination of the relevance ways of repositioning women for effective participation in politics. Women political participation is an issue of great importance. Women have been relegated to background politically for years. The paper point out the detrimental effects, which low participation of women, had on social, economic, political and cultural development of Nigeria. These had necessitated the reason why United Nation declared a decade for women in 1975 and other subsequent conferences on women, which were held in the following places Benjing in 1995, Kenya in 1985 and Denmark 1980 and others. However, idea does not approximate reality. Today, the need to reposition women has become a matter of necessity as the above effect has not yielded a commensurate impart in National development. It is against the above backdrop that makes this study imperative. The study was conducted into five chapters. Chapter one deals with the introduction, statement of ...