Overview of Contemporary Women’s Issues in North-Eastern Nigeria

Abstract

This paper examines the women economic status in Northeast region of Nigeria. The study asserts that contemporary patriarchy nature of the country as a whole aided by the religious and cultural interpretation have played a vital in widening gender-based economic disparity between men and women. Using both quantitative and qualitative data from various secondary sources, this study analyzes some key back-load concerns that attributed to the economic patriarchy of the North East societies. This paper has demonstrated that just like the national ratio of females to males, the North East region have almost equal ratio females to males, however, when it comes to economic status. Yet, the also identify some treacherous issues that need to be explicitly understood in order to minimize the gender-based disparity among local populous of this region.

Keywords: Economic Status, Human Development, Marginalized social, Patriarchy, Poverty