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Title: | Women and work: a study of female and male attitudes in the modern sector of an African metropolis |
Author: | Karanja, Wambui Wa |
Book title: | Women, education, and modernization of the family in West Africa |
Year: | 1981 |
Pages: | 42-66 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | mothers women workers |
Abstract: | In this chapter the author shows that in the modern sector of Lagos, Nigeria, both males and females approve of married women going out to work. However, there is a strong feeling that married women with young children should not work until the children are grown up. On the choice of work for women, is was found that women generally feel that they should do whatever job they are qualified for. Male workers tend to prefer women working in jobs like teaching, nursing or office work. There is agreement that a large number of children adversely affects women's progress at work. However, both males and females thought the ideal number of children for a working mother was four. Both sexes agree that women should control their own incomes, that husbands and wives should have separate bank accounts, and that the husband should be responsible for all household expenditure. While males feel that ambitious working women do not perform well as wives and mothers, females reject this view. Bibliogr. |