Nigerian Body designs curriculum to prepare women for leadership
Source: The Guardian
A group, under the auspices of the Women Leadership Institute (WLI), has designed a curriculum to help neutralise African society’s perception about women’s participation in leadership.
Speaking in Abuja at the launch of the institute, the Founder, Dr. Kema Chikwe, said there is need for a change of mindset, especially when the space for women are gradually being invaded by millennial women, who are digital, unlike those in the era before them.Chikwe, who also lamented non-passage of Women Bill at the National Assembly, said the passage was a challenge, not only for Nigerian women, but also for the society.
She said women, who constitute more than 50 percent of Nigerian population, were being denied their rightful place in leadership.She recalled that the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, while addressing women in parliament recently, lamented that Nigeria ranks 168th in global index of women development and referred to it as “abysmal global ranking in women representation in governance, especially in parliament. ”
Click here to read the full article published by The Guardian on 1 July 2018.
A group, under the auspices of the Women Leadership Institute (WLI), has designed a curriculum to help neutralise African society’s perception about women’s participation in leadership.
Speaking in Abuja at the launch of the institute, the Founder, Dr. Kema Chikwe, said there is need for a change of mindset, especially when the space for women are gradually being invaded by millennial women, who are digital, unlike those in the era before them.Chikwe, who also lamented non-passage of Women Bill at the National Assembly, said the passage was a challenge, not only for Nigerian women, but also for the society.
She said women, who constitute more than 50 percent of Nigerian population, were being denied their rightful place in leadership.She recalled that the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, while addressing women in parliament recently, lamented that Nigeria ranks 168th in global index of women development and referred to it as “abysmal global ranking in women representation in governance, especially in parliament. ”
Click here to read the full article published by The Guardian on 1 July 2018.
