GENDER BASED BIAS AND ITS SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS TOWARDS THE NIGERIAN WOMAN IN OREDO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF BENIN CITY

Summary

The economic sector of our society is one area where discrimination against women has been richly pronounced. According to the CEC Report (2007), the role of women in employment and economic activities is often underestimated because most of women work in the informal sectors, usually with low productivity and incomes, poor working conditions, with little or no social protection. It observes that the female labour force in sub-Saharan Africa in 2005 was about 73 million, representing 34% of those employed in the formal sector, earning only 10% of the income, while owning 1% of the assets. However, the denial of women’s inheritance and land rights has made their socio-economic participation considerably constrained and by implication, their educational aspiration (Nmadu 2000). Politics is increasingly becoming commercialized. More and more money is needed to participate in politics. Women lack access to and ownership of productive resource, limiting the scope of their political work. However, the major findings from the study revealed that;

1. there exist a positive relationship between patriarchy and women’s level of education in Oredo LGA of Benin City.
2. there is a link between male chauvinism (bigotry) and political participation in Oredo LGA of Benin City.
3. there is a significant relationship between gender disparity and women’s employment status in Oredo LGA of Benin City.
4. there is no linkage between gender pay gap ad women’s income earning in Oredo LGA of Benin City.