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ABSTRACT
The work documents the history of Nigeria’s 4th Republic National Assembly with special spotlight on women. The work contends that the society holds false belief about womanhood. The society believes that women are by nature less intellectually and physically incapable than men. Because of this reason, women are discriminated in all spheres of life in the Nigerian societies including politics. The work made use of both primary and secondary data, while it adopts the descriptive and analytic approaches. For lucidity, conceptual underpinnings like; womanhood, politics and national assembly were elaborately examined. Against this background, the dissertation principally examines the representation of Nigerian women in the National Assembly from 1999-2015 vis-a-vis their contributions and challenges. The research discovers that women were grossly under-represented in the National Assembly during the period under study. They were also sidelined in principal positions and skewed in politics of committee heads. Furthermore, the research unveils that women were physically and verbally assorted in the National Assembly. Despite all these, the research shows that they were active participants in committees, sponsored/presented Bills and motions in the National Assembly. In their various constituencies also, they made great impact. The research therefore suggests ways that could take women out of this quagmire and see their increase participation in the Nigerian politics in the following ways: implementation of affirmative action in both elective and appointive post, creation of favourable grounds for women participation in politics, implementation of laws that could punish anyone who humiliate, intimidate or harass any woman in the Nigerian society among others.
