WOMEN IN GOVERNANCE IN NIGERIA

PREFACE
This paper evaluates Women in governance in Nigeria. Women constitute almost half of Nigeria population, but their participation in governance in the country has been noticed but not to be comparable to that of their male counterpart.
It is truism to state that one of the major constraints to Women’s participation in governance in Nigeria are cultural beliefs and practices, financial limitation, marginalization within the political fraternity among others.
Some solutions to the problems of women participation in governance in Nigeria include: the Nigerian cultural understandings of gender which revolve around division of labour rather than equality between the sexes, improvement of women’s rights in Nigeria, sustaining achievements, etc.
This paper has been divided into three chapters in order to elucidate its objectives. Chapter one concentrates on the introductory and conceptual definition, chapter two premised on the history of Women in governance in Nigeria and chapter three concludes the paper and it proffers some recommendations.