26 Mar 2012 - Questions have been raised in several fora, which seem hitherto elusive. Why are Nigerian women playing a second fiddle in politics? Why the male chauvinists in politics are confining the role of women only to rendering care of the families at home is a puzzle many of us can not yet unravel. As Sara H. Longue, a gender equity advocate once said, “women’s endless toil, productive and reproductive contributions sustain families and communities.” To cap it all, she added, ”the woman’s toil is her husband’s leisure and the husband wants to reap it all. Ill-treatment of women in the political cycle have reached a horrifying level, such that most women have resigned to fate and thus, have resolved not to go into politics with great vision
For the full news article, see Nigerian Tribune.
26 Mar 2012 - Questions have been raised in several fora, which seem hitherto elusive. Why are Nigerian women playing a second fiddle in politics? Why the male chauvinists in politics are confining the role of women only to rendering care of the families at home is a puzzle many of us can not yet unravel. As Sara H. Longue, a gender equity advocate once said, “women’s endless toil, productive and reproductive contributions sustain families and communities.” To cap it all, she added, ”the woman’s toil is her husband’s leisure and the husband wants to reap it all. Ill-treatment of women in the political cycle have reached a horrifying level, such that most women have resigned to fate and thus, have resolved not to go into politics with great vision
For the full news article, see Nigerian Tribune.