Promoting Gender Equality in Political Participation: New Perspectives on Nigeria [Paperback]

This book analyses patterns of womens political participation and evaluates disparity between levels of womens participation in politics and representation in governance in Nigeria. It also examines the causes of womens underrepresentation in governance and decision-making as well as their implications for the countrys socioeconomic development and describes strategies for increased womens representation in governance and decision-making in Nigeria. This study relies on political-culture and liberal-feminist theory and adopts a mixed-method research design involving quantitative and qualitative methods. It uses multistage sampling in selecting Nigerias South-East, North-West and South-West geopolitical-zones and 1206 women of electoral age for the study survey conducted using structured questionnaire and in-depth interview.Damilola Taiye Agbalajobi is a Political Science Lecturer at Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria.

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Political Participation: Global Trends in Gender Disparity
Chapter 3: A History of Women in Political Activism and Governance in Nigeria
Chapter 4: Nigeria's Gender Policy: Affirmative Action, Women's Political Participation and Under-Representation in Governance
Chapter 5: Gender Disparity in Contemporary Nigerian Politics
Chapter 6: Strategies for an Increased Representation of Nigerian Women in Governance
List of Acronyms
Bibliography
Appendix I: Women in Politics Map 2017
Appendix II: Historical Timeline of International Events and Treaties Promoting Gender Equality
Appendix III: Geo-Political Zones of Nigeria
Appendix IV: Population Projection and Sample Size Calculation