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| | Article Name : | | Overview of Contemporary Women’s Issues in
North-Eastern Nigeria
| Author Name : | | YUNUSA HASSAN, DEEPIKA VARSHNEY | Publisher : | | Bridge Center | Article URL : | | | Abstract : | | This paper examines the women economic status in Northeast
region of Nigeria. The study asserts that contemporary patriarchy
nature of the country as a whole aided by the religious and cultural
interpretation have played a vital in widening gender-based economic
disparity between men and women. Using both quantitative and
qualitative data from various secondary sources, this study analyzes
some key backload concerns that attributed to the economic patriarchy
of the North East societies. This paper has demonstrated that just like
the national ratio of females to males, the North East region have
almost equal ratio females to males, however, when it comes to
economic status. Yet, the also identify some treacherous issues that
need to be explicitly understood in order to minimize the gender-based
disparity among local populous of this region.
| Keywords : | | Economic Status, Human Development, Marginalized
social, Patriarchy, Poverty |
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