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| Title: | Mobilizing Nigerian Women for National Development: The Role of the Female Elites |
| Author: | Aina, Olabisi I. |
| Year: | 1993 |
| Periodical: | African Economic History |
| Volume: | 21 |
| Pages: | 1-20 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Nigeria |
| Subjects: | development female elite women Women's Issues Development and Technology Economics and Trade Cultural Roles Historical/Biographical Politics and Government Sex Roles |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/3601806 |
| Abstract: | In November 1982 the Nigerian government established the National Committee on Women and Development, and directed that committees on Women and Development should be set up at state levels in response to the recommendations of the World Conference of the International Women's Year in Mexico City (1975), and the second extraordinary session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Governments of the OAU (1980). This paper evaluates Nigeria's efforts to increase the participation of women in development. After an outline of the position of women in traditional Nigerian society and the effects of changes in the country's political economy on the status and position of women, the paper examines the role of elite women in national development. It focuses on the Better Life for Rural Women Programme (BLP), initiated in 1987 by Maryam Babangida, the President's wife, and the role of elite women in NGOs. It argues that the BLP operates within the existing patriarchal ideological framework, reinforcing the status quo, and that it has failed to recognize women's political participation. Non-ruling elite women have been unable to mobilize other women for change because of forces which continue to disunite the country, such as ethnicity, tribalism, religion, and language barriers. Bibliogr. |
