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PROJECT TOPIC:  THE IMPACT OF WOMEN EMPOWERMENT ON POVERTY REDUCTION
Department:  Public Administration
AMOUNT:  10,000
FORMAT:   MS WORD
PAGES:  69
 
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This study assesses the following factors which may figure prominently in explanation of women’s increasing empowerment (1) social-economic development (2) rising gender equalization attitudes that transform economic development into cultural process of human development (3) historical legacies stemming from a society’s cultural and political traditions and (4) institutional design factors. This study compare the influence of these factors across some aspects of gender equality, gain in basic living conditions, participation in civic actions, the study urges that women in Nigeria would not benefit substantially from any poverty alleviation programme of the government without the development of their human capacity through formal education. This significant relationship between education and economic development and particularly to the income of individuals have never been in doubt.  

CHAPTER ONE

1.1  INTRODUCTION

Gender has been found to be significant dimension in this aggregation poverty. Therefore, since the late 1970’s there has been a growing interest in the strategies to enhance the economic status of women in third world countries through various policies ranging from direct development of appropriate skills to the promotion and substance of their entrepreneurial capabilities in both the formal and informal sectors. In particular, global concern and consensus to improve the status of the women and harness their full potentials for the sustainable development led to the establishment of various policies by United Nations and Nigeria in particular. Despite the economic contributions of women to the overall growth and development process, their economic role have been grossly underestimated, undervalued and scarcely acknowledge. In relative terms, while women constitute over 60% of the labour force in some sector and produce an increasing high proportion of the food supply, evidence suggest that they earn less than 10% of the world’s income and own 1% of the world’s assets (United Nations 1973 and Boginjoko, 1999).

1.2  BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY

A nation’s population is usually almost divided every between males and females accepts under peculiar circumstances such as war or highly selective immigration which normally affect males more than the females.

However, through out the ages, the sharing of power, wealth, influence, employment etc between men and women has never been close to equality.

 

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