ABSTRACT

Nigeria women has been relegated to the background of Nigeria politics in this research we set out to study the political participation of women in Abia State. And to know why women have not been achieving involved in the process of shaping the political system. The objectives of this research work is to find out if women are actively involved in the politics of Abia State.  And again, to find out factors responsible for how level of women participating in the politics of Abia State and the strategies to be adopted in order to ensure achieve participation of women in the politics. It is obvious that women in Nigeria have encountered a number of problems while venturing into politics. There is large scale of discriminations from the male folks, both in voting for candidates and allocating political offices. This issue and problem of women and political participation in Nigeria is the issue of national orientation and awareness to the society at large especially to the low level awareness of the majority of the masses. Finally government should educate the majority of people especially the women folk as majority are illiterates and had already behaved that many of them have no right in political participation and public affairs.

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER ONE:

1.1            Introduction

1.2            Statement of the Problem

1.3            Objective of the Study

1.4            Significance of the Study

1.5            Scope and Limitation of the Study

1.6            Limitations

1.7            Research Questions

1.8            Clarification of Key Concepts

 

CHAPTER TWO

2.0     Literature Review

2.1     Theoretical Framework

2.2     Women in Politics

2.3     Women in Pre-Colonial and Post Colonial

2.4     The Impact of Women in the Colonial Period

2.5     The Impact of Women in Post-Colonial Nigeria

2.6     Women in the Post Independence Era

2.7     Women in Politics

2.8     Women in Economy

2.9     Women in Agriculture

 

CHAPTER THREE

3.1     Research Methodology and Design

3.2     Research Design

3.3     Sources of Data

3.4     Location of Study

3.5     Population of the Study

3.6     Sample Technique

3.7     Instrumentation

3.8     Validity of the Instrument

3.9     Reliability of the Study

3..10  Data Collection

3.11   Instrument Rate Return (IRR)

 

CHAPTER FOUR

4.1     Data Presentation and Analysis

 

CHAPTER FIVE

5.1     Summary of Findings

5.2     Conclusion