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The Role Of Women In Rural Development
[A CASE STUDY OF ABRIBA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF ABIA STATE IN NIGERIA]
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As pointed by Okojie M. I. “Women in Managementâ€, paper presented at
the new conference on contribution of women to national development;
agrees that women not only work hard whether in the formal or informal
sector of the economy, but it would be noted that women are good
managers. Women are managers of situations whether in the home at the
far. A places of worship, mosque, at work setting etc. these women
manage people, challenges changes etc. and adopt to circumstance of
scarcity and certainties in the economy. Yet in Nigeria today less than
five (15) percents of managers in strategic sectors are women. The
traits which haves often been seen in successful managers are
masculinity, aggressiveness, competitiveness, firmness and justice and
these qualities have been traditionally viewed as being absent among
Nigeria womenâ€.
Walter Rodney, in his book “How Europe
underdeveloped African†maintains that the role of women dependent on
pre-colonial Africans show that two contracting but combined tendencies.
In the first place women were exploited by men through polygamous
arrangements designed to capture the labour power of women. In his view
exploitation was accompanied by oppression, which at most always reduces
women boast of burden. He however, emphasized mother right as a means
of escape for women to attaining their right. However, Rodney by his use
of the independent pre-colonial African as his reference for the
assessment of women’s role had understand the role of exploitation
women were undergoing since independent in the societyâ€.
Pauline D., in his book “women of tropical Africa†defined the role of
women in political organization in term of their participation direct or
indirect in the activities of groups of sub-group, which exercise
authority. To facilitate analysis the very large number of African
political system has been assigned to this category of societies in
which organized stat with centralized authority and administrative
machinery and in which an economy based on the profit motive has created
social classed between which there is unequal contribution of wealth
and differences in status on the other societies in which the political
structures is more or less fused with kinship organization kinship ties
being the basic of social relation according to Catherine Acholonu there
can be not true development nation or environmental without the full
participation of women at the grass roots. There must be full
participation of women leader and administration in her book title
“Matherison of Afrocentrics Alternative to feminism†conclusively the
emphasis of mothers right by the various writes as a means of
ameliorating and restorations of women due privileges in the society was
rather insufficiently treated, this was women’s African countries, even
were the case of Abiriba which is our case study was not considered in
the above literature.
1.6 Characterization
This work is divided
into (5) five chapters. The chapter one is about the introduction of the
work that is background of the study, aims and objectives of study,
scope of the study, research methodology, literature review,
chapterization. Chapter two (2) historical background of Abiriba people,
the role of women in rural development in time perspective and chapter
three (3) covers the women and community development in Abiriba during
the pre-colonial and colonial era, women in the development of Abiriba
during contemporary time and lastly the instrument used by the Abiriba
women in actualizing their aims chapter four (4) will base on the
problem militating against women in playing their roles effective and
prospects for women participation in the development process of the
community. Chapter five will be conclusion, recommendation and
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