The Impact of Women Political Participation on Community Development (a Case Study of Ini Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State)

Student: Esther Anietie Udo (Project, 2025)
Department of Public Administration
Heritage Polytechnic, Ikot Udota, Akwa Ibom State

Abstract

The study of women political participation have reveal that Ini Local Government women have encountered a number of problem while venturing into politics. There is large scale discrimination from the men folk both in voting for candidates and in allocating political offices. More often not, men constitute a larger percentage of the party membership and that tends to affects women when it comes to selecting or electing candidate for election since men are usually the majority in the political party set-up they tend to dominate the party hierarchy and are therefore at advantage in influencing the party’s internal politics. This study seeks to determine and identify the problems confronting women political participation. It is also aimed at indentifying the strategies which make politics in Nigeria to be effective if women are to participate. Through the data gotten from the questionnaire for the test of hypothesis, we observed that the prospect of politics in Ini Local Government Area would be effective, if women are given equal opportunity to participate in politics.
 

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Women Political Participation and Community Development
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