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The Roles Of Women In Politics As Well As The Prospects And Constraints Of Their Participation In Politics
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1.8 LITERATURE REVIEW
This entails a review of works that are related to the topic and the
subject matter of this research. It discusses the existing works related
to the research pointing out their strengths and weaknesses: where such
works have been of benefit to the research as well as where the
research will be useful in filling the gaps of such works.
Joy N. Ezeilo in her book Women and Children’s right, she talked about
women and children rights. She started the book by citing the UN
Declaration of Women’s Right. She looked at women’s right in
international arena and also discussed the problems of women right in
Nigeria such as economic, political, legal, social and cultural factors.
She concluded the book by encouraging individuals and Non-Governmental
Organizations (NGOs) to continue their struggles for promotion and
protection of women’s right.10 The relevance of the book to this
research is, it informs individuals about rights of women and the right
which women should be given. It however failed to mentioned that some
women have risen above such barriers, struggled and made some progress
in achieving their rights.
Kennedy Aniemeka Ogbuani’s book is another
work that contributes immensely to the research. In the book, the
writer discussed the term superiority and how some women despite all
odds triumph. He started by discussing male domination in some spheres
of life and the attitude of men towards women. He made mentioned of
women who made positive impacts at the world level such as: Margret
Tharcher who impacted positively to the economic greatness of Great
Britain and other international figures like Indira Ghandi, Corazon
Aquino of Philipnes, Benazir Bhuto of Pakistan and Magdaline Albright of
USA.11
Consequently, the book by Hajara Mohammed Kabir
contributed to this research. The book centered on problems confronting
women in the Northern part of Nigeria. The Author appears to know the
problems hindering the development of women in the North as only a true
northerner would do. She sees some cultural practices working against
the advancement or development of women. Particularly, the author feels
the Purdah system has contributed in no small measure to the
under-development of women in Northern Nigeria. She believes strongly
that the Purdah is a hindrance to women’s advancement in politics. She
argued that the incessant incidents of rapes, sexual harassment, hawking
and unguided early marriages that are the borne of women under
development are un-Islamic.12 However, the critic here is, the author
focused her attention on women that only found themselves in politics
because their husbands were at a point in time Presidents or Governors.
To me these are not politicians. She would have made mentioned of women
that contested and won elections at various levels.
In
addition, the book by Jibrin Ibrahim and Amina Salihu focused on the
discrimination against women and largely marginalized in many field
especially in politics, in matters of good economic policies and
governance. The need to align the energies, expectations and aspiration
of women to national ideals are been neglected. To buttress their
argument, they pinpoints the experiences of fifteen (15) women aspirants
in 2003 General Elections whose story contains challenging but
inspiring messages. The book also contains a comprehensive report of
civil advocacy efforts at promoting the participation of women in
politics.13
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