WOMEN AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN NIGERIA: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF LAGOS AND OGUN STATES (1999 - 2007).

📄 Project Abstract

which relegates women to subordinate role, has created women's inferiority complex and alienated them from the mainstream politics in Nigeria. The Nigerian political culture of thuggery and gangsterism has made the political terrain too dangerous for most women to venture into mainstream politics. Besides, the stigmatization of women politicians by fellow women discourages the political participation of the former while religious beliefs and institutional arrangements that restrict women to family responsibilities in the country coupled with lack of decisive affirmative action to encourage women's political participation, have created a legacy that limit women's political participation in Lagos and Ogun State respectively. Consequently, the study emphasises the need to address those factors that entrench women subordination in Nigeria's politics. These include, among others, the reformation of all religious, statutory and customary laws and practices that perpetuate women's subordinati...