ABSTRACT Empowering women to contribute their quota towards community and national development has become a contemporary issue embraced worldwide. Despite the fact that women’s political participation right has been enshrined in the international law, little is known about the struggles and experience women in Africa face in their quest to participate in the development of the community and the country at large. The study sought to examine socio-cultural factors affecting the participation...
ABSTRACT The research entitled the quest for domestic relations bill was aimed at the following objectives to establish and investigate inadequacies in the methodologies employed in the initial processes of the domestic relation laws reforms, to assess the shortfalls within the advocacy strategy employed from the time the domestic study report was made public in 1998 until the current period,to investigate and establish the possible extraneous factors responsible for the delay of the passing...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this work was to examine the patterns and determinants of fertility in Nsukka region, Enugu State, Nigeria. This was necessarily because most fertility studies across the nation lay emphasis on single or selected determinants, and using the findings to make recommendations on generalized terms which may not be applicable in different parts of the country. The data for this work was generated from questionnaire survey administered to 840 women of the reproductive age co...
past few decades, African women scholars have weighed in on significant issues raised by feminists all over the world. With each new point of view, the knowledge base about the African woman’s life, thoughts and experiences continues to grow. This research explores female space and other aspects of the African woman’s social environment, re-examining questions of identity, womanhood and female empowerment in Africa by looking at Lola Shoneyin’s novel, The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s W...
Abstract/Overview Purpose: The purpose of the study was to assess the socio-economic challenges faced by CoG-Kenya in poverty alleviation in Emuhaya District, Western Kenya. Methodology: This study was a cross-sectional research that sought to give an examining and descriptive scrutiny of the CoG-K‟s activities in Emuhaya District of Western Kenya. This study sampled a total of 312 respondents (1 Bishop, 1 General Secretary, 1 General Assembly Trustee, 1 General Assembly Treasurer, 16 D...
TABLE OF CONTENTDECLARATIONAPROVALDEDICATIONACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ivLIST OF ABBREVIATIONS vLIST OF FIGURES viLIST OF TABLESTABLE OF CONTENTABSTRACTCHAPTER ONE 1.1 Background to the study 21.2 Statement ofthe problem 81 .3 Purpose ofthe study 81 .4.2 Specific Objectives 81 .4.3 Research Question 91.5 Scope of the study 91.5.1 Geographical scope 9I .5.2 Content scope 91.5.3 Scope ofthe study 91.5.4 Time scope 101.6 Significance ofthe study 10CHAPTER TWO 11LITERATURE REVIEW 112.0 Introduction 11yin2....
ABSTRACT This study set to find out the relationship between personal power and marital satisfaction among married staff at Kampala International University, Kampala District. It was guided by five specific objectives, that included determining of the i) profile of respondents in terms of age, gender, education level, marriage order, number of children, marriage duration and headship of family; ii) determining the level of personal power; iii) the level of marital satisfaction; iv) the diff...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to investigate on the characteristic of good future partners as perceived by students in tertiary institutions in Oyo town. The variables of interest were gender, age, family background, institution and religion. Two hundred respondents were sampled for the study. Five hypotheses were formulated and tested. Frequency counts and simple percentages were used to analyse the demographic data of respondents. While t-test stati...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to investigate on the characteristic of good future partners as perceived by students in tertiary institutions in Oyo town. The variables of interest were gender, age, family background, institution and religion. Two hundred respondents were sampled for the study. Five hypotheses were formulated and tested. Frequency counts and simple percentages were used to analyse the demographic data of respondents. While t-test stati...
Table of ContentsDECLARATION ........................................................................................................................ iSUPERVISOR’S APPROVAL .................................................................................................. iiDEDICATION.......................................................................................................................... iiiACKNOWLEDGEMENT.........................................................................
ABSTRACT After former government of Somalia throw out in 1991, all educational institutions have collapsed, due to lack of government, budget for education, salaries for teachers, and funds for rehabilitating schools in Somalia. International donors started to provide some limited support through United Nations agencies by financing many educational projects including primary school projects and their focus was almost entirely on the goals of improving enrolment and retention in primary sch...
ABSTRACT The title of our project was attitude of parents towards girl-child education in Suru Local Government area, Kebbi State. A population of 150 was used the design for the study was survey design. The research questions were answered using descriptive status of simple percentage in tables. One of the major findings was early marriage and economic factors were responsible for low or non participation of girls in western education. It was also recommended that the few educated girls sho...
ABSTRACT Women's prope11y rights for a long time have been violated because of many factors including patriarchy. This is where men dominate all the affairs of the society and woman are left to watch things happen even when they are the ones who participate more but earns less. The gender stereotypes where women are seen as a weaker sex and they are made to believe that whatever the society thinks of tern is true and live by it. The researcher looked at the rights of women to own property in...
Abstract Cohabitation is when people live together in an emotional and or physically intimate relationship. The West Encyclopedia of American Law defines the term as couples who are not married while Abubakar et al., (2008) defines cohabitation as simply the act of a man and woman living together and having a sexual relationship without being married. Prior to 1970, cohabitation was illegal and even considered as a taboo in most states (Popenoe et al., 1999). Today, the practice has become co...
Table of contents PageDECLARATION.ivAPPROVAL vDEDICATION viACKNOWLEDGMENT viiDEFINITIONS OF TERMS viiiABSTRACT ixCHAPTER ONE 1INTRODUCTION 11.1 Background to the study 11.2 Statement of the problem 11.3 Purpose of the study 21.4 Specific objectives 21.5 Research questions 21.6 Significance of the study 21.7 Scope of the study 3CHAPTER TWO 4LITERATURE REVIEW 42.1 Introduction 42.2 Formation of social networks 42.4 Social networks and urban survival 5CHAPTER THREE 7RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 73.1 Int...