GENDER INJUSTICE AND PEACE BUILDING IN NIGERIA; THE FEMINIST
Authors:
ADESIYAN Victor
Publication Type: Journal article
Journal: International Journal Of African Culture And Ideas
ISSN Number:
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Abstract
Gender injustice on females has found its ways into the heart of human society and has become a tough stain to remove. Researchers have opined that the impact of injustice on females within and internationally realm has not really been addressed. Historically, in Nigeria, it is observed that the womanhood is reduced to a mere infidel, hence there is the commonality belief that the best place for women is the kitchen. This trend has brought about tremendous misrepresentation of women’s right at the family down to the circular society which is unfair and inhuman; the formed the main objective of the study. The study is qualitative in nature as it relied on secondary sources, while Liberal, radical and Marxian theories were adopted as the theoretical framework. Study found that the Nigerian society is male-controlled in nature which is basically a major feature of a traditional society, a custom which enables men to dominate and discriminate women from formal education, gender injustice and perpetual treating female as second class citizen, a significant which the study intend to examined. The study therefore recommends, a supplementary assertive advocacy by gender Right Activists, religion leaders, as well as domestication of international instruments on women’s Right and an urgent review of all Gender Discriminatory Laws in Nigeria towards curbing Gender Injustice.