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Toward the Creation of a New Order for Nigerian Women: Recent Trends in Politics and Policies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2019

Extract

Women experience numerous contradictions as they undergo social change. Many have celebrated the autonomy of Nigerian women. Some “got drunk” with the notions of this autonomy. Change created a number of problems that supposed autonomy could not come to grips with. Just a few examples: First, women appeared to contribute more labor to the development process than men, burdening them with physical and time constraints. Second, modernization created new resources and along with them, new kinds of inequalities in access to resources. Specifically, women had much more limited access to resources than men. Consequently, women could not invest resources in the same ways as men.

Type
FOCUS: Beyond Nairobi: Women’s Politics and Policies in Africa Revisited
Copyright
Copyright © African Studies Association 1989 

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References

* This essay is based on a speech at the Women's Caucus breakfast at the 1988 African Studies Association meeting in Chicago.