Women and development in Nigeria : a bibliography
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1981Author(s)/Corporate Author (s)
African Training and Research Centre for Women;United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa.;
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The paper discusses and illustrates with statistical data the life styles of 170 women interviewed in 1974, Fifty-six per cent of these women were Kanurl and thirty eight per cent were from other northern groups. Data are given on a number of important variables education, occupational activities, number of marriages and co-wives children, domicile of children, frequency of leaving the compound and the nature of decision making. It was found that over three quarters of the respondents had had only Koranic education and of the 21 women who had had primary education or beyond, only nine were Muslims, Case histories of these nine educated women are given. They differed from their uneducated counterparts mainly in their wish to have their children educated through the secondary school or university level, although they still left this decision to their husbands. Nearly half of the women in the sample had divorced, however, the women s average age was low enough that an increase in the number of divorces could be presumed. Of the 309 respondents’ children, 42 per cent were being raised by relatives. Of the women in the sample had been raised by relatives and 38 were themselves fostering others· children· the author finds this proportion low in view of the alleged prevalence of the practice. Excluding the widowed, divorced or separated, 55 per cent of the respondents left the compound only for medical treatment during the day or to visit relatives and friends after dark.
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“African Training and Research Centre for Women; United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa. (1981). Women and development in Nigeria : a bibliography. Addis Ababa :. © UN. ECA,. https://hdl.handle.net/10855/26355”Serial Title
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