Keyword : Role .Rural women .Community development .Enugu East .Cultural Practices
Author(s) : Jude Okezie Emmanuel Udenta
Abstract :
It is fair and crucial to give honour to whom it is due. It is unfair to deny anyone of the benefits of one’s effort. The development of a sense of community is one sweet phenomenon that marks sustainable development. The pursuit and realization of this reality is one that drives sundry conscious socio-economic and political activities. Incidentally, the way things have come to be, with the urban areas providing the locus for the men and women who govern, the rural-dwellers are consciously or unconsciously presented as inert. This negative or sub-human perception is even worse in regard to the rural women. However, in the same manner in which the Air Force would be ineffective without the enabling ground forces, this study looks at the rural women in regard to the provision of the enabling environment for community development. The study considered the true position vis-a-vis the obfuscating shibboleth concerning our rural women. Based on a population of 277,119, the study looked at the challenges, using the questionnaire instrument on a sample size of 400. The study made several interesting findings, notable among these relate to the land tenure and property ownership and other attendant or allied discriminatory and offensive cultural practices. These guided the suggestions, a major one of which is further policy platforms to drive the empowerment of rural women, the girl-child education to the tertiary level is germane too in this regard, in addition to other recommendations.
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