INTRODUCTION
The society places a higher status on work done by men
than women who often do things like caring for children, cooking and the likes.
There is a high level of violence against women in all countries of the world.
There is also discrimination against women in areas of family law, inheritance,
property and land ownership. In Nigeria, women are not well represented at all
levels of decision making in the society, though they are a significant 48
percent of Nigeria’s population according to the National Population Census in
2006 (Oluniyi 2006).
