ABSTRACT
This work studied women participation in community development with special
emphasis on Igbo Eze South Local Government Area, Enugu State. The exercise was
carried out due to the observed lag in women participation in community development
all over the country. The work had four key objectives which it sought to realize.
These include: to ascertain the barriers to women participation in agriculture within
the local government, to ascertain the impact of low level of education on women
participation in community development, to determine how to enhance women
participation in the politics of Igbo Eze South Local Government Area and finally to
identify ways of empowering the women for optimal participation in the overall
development of the communities. The researcher made use of both primary and
secondary sources of data to generate data used for the study. These data were
presented in tables and analysed using simple percentage. The researcher found out
the various barriers to women participation in community development to include
cultural practices, low level of women education, poverty among the rural women and
violent that characterize the country’s politics. It is therefore recommended that
cultural practices that deny women free access to land should be abrogated;
Government should provide modern farm implements to the rural women farmers and
also educate them on how to use these implements to enhance productivity; girl child
education should be made free and also compulsory at least at secondary school
levels.
IFEANYICHUKWU, M (2021). Participation Of Women In Community Development In Nigeria: A Case Study Of Igbo Eze South Local Government Area, Enugu State. Afribary. Retrieved from https://afribary.com/works/participation-of-women-in-community-development-in-nigeria-a-case-study-of-igbo-eze-south-local-government-area-enugu-state
IFEANYICHUKWU, MAMAH "Participation Of Women In Community Development In Nigeria: A Case Study Of Igbo Eze South Local Government Area, Enugu State" Afribary. Afribary, 14 May. 2021, https://afribary.com/works/participation-of-women-in-community-development-in-nigeria-a-case-study-of-igbo-eze-south-local-government-area-enugu-state. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
IFEANYICHUKWU, MAMAH . "Participation Of Women In Community Development In Nigeria: A Case Study Of Igbo Eze South Local Government Area, Enugu State". Afribary, Afribary, 14 May. 2021. Web. 21 Nov. 2024. < https://afribary.com/works/participation-of-women-in-community-development-in-nigeria-a-case-study-of-igbo-eze-south-local-government-area-enugu-state >.
IFEANYICHUKWU, MAMAH . "Participation Of Women In Community Development In Nigeria: A Case Study Of Igbo Eze South Local Government Area, Enugu State" Afribary (2021). Accessed November 21, 2024. https://afribary.com/works/participation-of-women-in-community-development-in-nigeria-a-case-study-of-igbo-eze-south-local-government-area-enugu-state