The Gender Question and the Nigerian Fourth Republic, 1999- 2015

Abstract

This paper traces the contribution of Nigerian women to the political history of Nigeria.  The research also studied the nature and role of women in politics; analyzed the prevailing factors that have made the women folks to get a low percentage, in terms of numbers, of females, that were victorious at polls.

The study relied heavily on documentary data and lightly on oral data. The oral data were based on unstructured interviews with some feminist scholars; and the documentary data were sourced from colonial government annual departmental reports, correspondence, books and magazines. The oral data were transcribed for analysis. The documentary data were subjected to textual and contextual analysis.

The researcher found out that women were not victorious in most elections because of so many inhibiting factors associated with religion, wealth ...etc.