ABSTRACT
Attitude to the value and importance of women throughout history have been different. The Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) while respecting the Status of Women says Women are like candles and lights in the house where the woman is clearly not happy. (200) questionnaires were administered of which all were retuned and used for analysis. The primary is the method of data collection, From the perspective of women with disabilities Plato and Aristotle are weaker than women are qualitative and quantitative differences between men and women and their talents believes both woman and man hours helpless man knows Napoleon's partner says that if there were no women who trained the world's greats Victor Hugo believes that he needs for comfort women and development is not possible without each other they) Shafi¬abadi, 2000). Marxist theory of economic and political was adopted as the theoretical framework basis of the analysis. Major force women to transform a potential source for developing the rural economy and increase the growth rate of food production are increasing. They constitute half the population of rural communities and plays an important role in economic and social development as a responsible citizen, mother and worker. Rural women is a very broad scope. Parental, wet and drying, daily food preparation and processing multiple aquifers, doing laundry, caring for family members and many other tasks that rural women are constantly and daily activities except for family members do. All of these activities to reduce costs and increase livelihood and providing for the family's welfare is done. The aim of this study was to illustrate the role and activities of rural women and the impact of these activities is to improve the welfare of rural families. In this study, taking into account the problems of society and utilizes resources effectively connected as well as comments and valuable results sociologists in the afternoon to the conclusion that human development as a key characteristic of the role of women consider it. Investing more rural women and their education will increase rural economic development and welfare of the household.
TABLE OF CONTENT
TITLE PAGE 53
APPROVAL PAGE 54
DECLARATION 55
CERTIFICATION 56
DEDICATION 57
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 58
TABLE OF CONTENT 59
ABSTRACT 62
CHAPTER ONE
1.3 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 3
1.4 SIGNIFICANCE AND PURPOSE OF THE STUDY 3
1.5 HYPOTHESIS OF RESEARCH 4
1.6 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY 5
1.7 SCOPE AND LIMITATION OF THE STUDY 7
1.8 DEFINITION OF TERMS 7
CHAPTER TWO
2.1 Overview of Women in community Development 9
2.3 Roles of Women Organizations in Women
Empowerment. 14
2.3.1 Women Research and Documentation Center
(WORDOC) 15
2.3.2 Women in Nigeria (WIN) 15
2.3.3 Country Women Association of Nigeria
(COWAN) 15
2.3.4 Better Life Programme (BLP) 16
2.3.5 Women Rights Advancement and Protection
Alternative (WRAPA) 16
2.4.2 Women and Agricultural Development 18
2.4.3 Nigeria Women and Community Development 19
2.5 Strategies for Developing Capacities of
Women 20
2.6 Review of Relevant Theories 21
2.6.1 Liberal Feminism 22
2.6.2 Radical Feminism 23
2.6.3 Sociocultural Determinants 24
2.6.4 Marxist Approach 25
CHAPTER THREE
3.1 Research Design 28
3.2 Sources of Data 28
3.3 Population and Sample Size of the Study 29
3.4 Method of Data Collection 30
3.5 Method of Data Analysis 31
CHAPTER FOUR
4.1 Presentation and Analysis of Data 35
4.1.1 Data Presentation Matrix on Occupation
and Age Range of Respondents Sampled for the Study 35
4.1.2 Data Presentation Matrix on Level of
Education and Marital 36
4.1.3 Data Presentation on the Responses of
Participants in the Study 36
4.2 Test of Hypotheses 38
4.2.1 Test for Reliability of Data 38
CHAPTER FIVE
5.1 SUMMARY 46
5.2 Conclusion 46
5.3 Recommendations 47
BIBLIOGRAPHY 48
APPENDIX 50
CHAPTER ONE
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
1.1 INTRODUCTION
In every
organization women contribute more to the social, economic development because
they develop the organization structure enlighten the women shout their
position, night and importance among other thing towards the national socio-
economic development, which will build the nation,
The purpose of this research is to find out how
women participate or contribute towards socio-economic development, directly or
indirectly, It aims to investigate why women are not fully participating in
social and economic development activities like their counterparts and to find
possible and necessary solution about the women participation on with regards
to other place such as United States of America, (U.S.A) or any other country
in Africa like Kenya, It is duly believed that, lack of research work on this
subject matter, is another contributing factor towards minimum participation of
women towards socio economic development in Kazaure Local Government area, as a
case study.
Therefore, according to the researcher
conducting this research work, will enable and encourage the women of Kazaure
Local Government area to understand the importance of their participation in
contributing towards socio-economic development, and it help the government to
understand their problems and to find out the necessary solution, in which the
women will understand their role, position,
and importance within the society as their
husband opposition or counterparts The generally, illiterate women cannot work
together but, when they work together, they will be always fighting with each
other traditionally, the women of Kazaure Local Government try to give their
maximum contribution towards socio-economic development, but due to same
problems, the women of Kazaure Local Government they only engage themselves in
local and primitive source of income and local social service, the role of
women on that period include, local basket making, leather works, local weaving
of cloth, local mat, craft work, calabash carving poetry, local groundnut, oil
processing, raffia works, small. Trade, processing of proper and child
maintenance.
Therefore, in terms of faming, the women of
Kazaure Local Government Area, they normally do not take part in land clearing,
but, they participate on planting, weeding, fertilizer applying, harvesting and
processing, and only among the women of Kazaure Local Government area, can
produce both cash and food crops, due to some problems, such as custom and
tradition, religions problems like education factors, and lack of interest and
awareness of the women.
The women of Kazaure Local Government live on
this condition up to the carrying of better life programme in (1987) which was
introduced by the first Lady Mrs. Maryam Babangida, which was later change to
family support programme by the first Lady Mrs. Maryam Sani Abacha, whose
determination was up to lift the status of the Nigerian women in general and
rural women in particular. The programme, meant to alleviate poverty in the rural
areas. In which before that, the opportunities of the rural women were after
limited, their access to hand was also limited and their active participation
on economic activities was also limited, but due to the coming of this
programmes, family support, better of life, the life of women of Kazaure Local
Government has been changed.
Through
this organization and others such as women commission; then organization
conducted so many seminars, and workshops for enlighten the women and men about
the importance of women participation in socio-economic development activities,
the gradually women accepted these programmes, so that system of those source
of income has been changed for both socially and economically. Women
participation on socio-economic development is mostly attended by religions and
tribal influence, which make it possible for women participate fully in
socio-economic development.
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
The one of the greatest obstacles of the
Nigerian women, is the cultural suppression by the men; the men consider the
women as a second filled whose decision must be influence by the project at all
the time the worse still the man don't see the contribution of the women both
socially and economically or otherwise, as complimentary to their daily efforts
to the family on every aspect.
In spite of this, whenever, the women display
infinity in their economic activities any other respect, the man see the
performance as a threat to them and that particular women might be considered
as a witched for the ingenuity, avenues are employed by the man to keep the
women down perpetually.
In tem of politics, the women are field to the
wishes of the men, whereby the women vote according to the dictates of the
women on the issue of land ownership, the women does not have right to own a
piece of land or property without the permission of the husband.
1.3 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
Every research project writing work like this
mfust have some objectives that it wants to achieve. Among the objective of
this project are:
i.
To
examine the matenal being used to develop the women strength of the women with
a view to highlight the shortcoming and possible solution;
ii.
To reawaken the management on the importance of
women development towards the
Accomplishment of the organizational’
objectives and to expose without bias if lapses have made in developing the
women in the organization with a view to suggesting the way out;
iii.
To make
the employees of the organization understand what is meant by socio economic
development;
iv.
To examine how women development help in
attaining the organizational objectives.
1.4 SIGNIFICANCE AND PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
This research project is very important to the
government and individual persons, more especially women and other men.
Through this project the women will understand
the important of their position in scion-economic development, therefore the
project will encourage the women to participate fully in socio-economic
development activities will reduce their family problems and it so will enable
the women to become independent body, and acquire more education. Secondly,
through this project the government will understand the problems of the women
towards socio-economic development. Therefore, the government will make all
necessary things to solve the women problems. Also the husband will understand
the illness effect of the old traditions and culture, which make them to stop
their wives from participation in socioeconomic development activities.
Finally, the entire people of Kazaure Local Government Area, will benefit from
positive effect of the women participation, through this research project, by
contributing more to the activities.
The man is culturally made to believe that the
women alone shoulder the responsibilities of children. These cultural or
domestic problems can further be compounded by lack of basic social amenities
that could enlighten the women build in to socio cultural sitting such as lack
of portable drinking water, and illiteracy.
1.5 HYPOTHESIS OF RESEARCH
This statement of assumption which the research
expects to prove right or wrong from the research finding. It is based on
observation of facts. It is therefore testable and tentatively made at the
onset of the study. It a approachable explanation of the relationship between
two variable or more that create a situation there are two type of hypothesis
i.
Null
Hypothesis;
ii.
Alternative
hypothesis
The following are some hypothesis the
researcher want to test on this project topic the role of women towards
socio-economic development: A case study of Kazaure Local government
Areas.
Hi: The educated women contribute more towards
socio-economic development than non-educated.
H2: The lack of encouragement by the Government
and enlightenment of women as well as getting freedom from the men, hinders,
the maximum contribution, and participation of women towards socio-economic
development.
H3 : The women with many children has less
responsibility for contributing, if you compared with women who have less
children for the contributing towards the socio-economic, development. The
above hypothesis will be examining base on the facts that will follow from
survey to be conducted.
1.6 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Kazaure is an Emirate and a Local Government
Area of Jigawa State, Nigeria. Its headquarters is in the ancient city of
Kazaure.
The valley that was to become modern day
Kazaure has a long history. It was said to have been first settled by a group
of Hausa (also known as Habe) hunter clan under the leadership of a warrior
called Kutumbi. It was around the year 1300 CE. According to Oral Tradition
passed down through the centuries by Griots, Kutumbi and his people were said
to have migrated from the settlement of blacksmiths living on the Dala
Hills-believed by historians to be the first inhabitants of the land now known
as Kano.
The legend of Kazaure's founding tells the
story of how Kutumbi on one of his hunting expeditions found a valley
surrounded by huge defensive plateaus and rich with rivers and small streams.
He stayed in the area for quite some time until his family became worried over
his long absence which was contrary to his usual hunting habit, they followed
his tracks for many days. After a long and arduous journey, they found Kutumbi
in a beautiful valley. One of the new arrivals looked upon the nature of the
land and exclaimed to another “"Wannan Wajen Kamar Zaure!" (The
translation of the Hausa phrase is "This place is like an inner
room”).
This expression "Kamar Zaure" was
transformed over the centuries to Kazaure thus becoming the name of the
settlement the Habe hunters founded at the site. Kutumbi's clan lived in the
area for hundreds of years, they left archaeological evidence of their
Hunter/Gatherer culture. They also practiced small-scale agriculture. The
longest surviving traces of their presence was their religion; they worshiped a
goddess called Tsumburbura to whom they made animal sacrifices at the top of
Kazaure's hills. Their practice lives on today in the spiritual songs and
dances of Bori. It wasn't until the arrival of the Yarimawan Fulani
However, that an administrative system was
established in the area.
The city of Kazaure has been the emirate's
headquarters since 1819. It was founded by Dan Tunku, a Fulani warrior who was
one of the 14 flag bearers for the Fulani jihad (holy war) leader Usman dan
Fodio. Dan Tunku arrived from the nearby town of Dambatta at a stockaded
village that he named Kazaure and established an emirate that was carved from
the adjoining Kano, Katsina and Dauraemirates.
Dan Tunku, was the Fulani leader who, early in
the jihad, had prevented a coalition between the forces of the Hausa Chiefs of
Kano, Katsina, and Daura. For this feat he had received a flag from Shehu.
Later he had helped to establish a Fulani régime in Daura, but thereafter he
had not played a particularly active part in the jihad and had made little
contribution to the victory of the reformers in Kano. By the end of the war his
position in northern Kano was strong but ill-defined. As a flag-bearer he had
the right of doing homage direct to Shehu, and subsequently to Bello, but in
spite of this it seems to have been recognized that he was to some extent under
the tutelage of Kano. So long as the unworldly Sulaimanu was Emir of Kano this
loose arrangement apparently worked satisfactorily, but when the much more
forceful Ibrahim Dabo succeeded him, it broke down. Ibrahim demanded Dan
Tunku's allegiance and was refused. He thereupon conferred on one of his own
vassals, Sarkin Bai of the Dambazawd fulani Clan, a fief embracing all of
Northern Kano including the territories that Dan Tunku and his followers had
acquired in the jihad. This move led to open hostilities.
The fighting, though intermittent, lasted about
five years. At first Dan Tunku. Had the best of it and raided right up to the
walls of the city. Gradually, however, Kano's weight began to tell and he was
pressed back. Nevertheless, he still continued to harry all the northern part
of Kano Emirate. When Clapperton passed through the country in 1824 he found
the Emir Ibrahim in his war-camp, preparing for the annual campaign, and in
many ruined and deserted villages he saw evidence of Dan Tunku's past ravages.
Later in the same year Ibrahim Dabo made a determined attempt to bring Dan
Tunku, to heel. He took an army up to the Kazaure hills and occupied the
fortified camp Where Dan Tunku had made his headquarters. Soon afterwards,
however, Dan Tunku made a surprise counter attack and drove the Kano forces out
again.
As the fighting had ended in stalemate both
sides agreed that the dispute should be referred to the arbitration of the
Sultan. When the case was brought to him, Bello judged in favour of Dan Tunku
and reaffirmed Dan Tunku's independence of the Emir of Kano. Kazaure was
thereby recognized to be a separate Emirate and its boundaries were demarcated.
This decision brought the hostilities to an end and after that Kano and Kazaure
lived together as good neighbours. But the fact remained that, even in Sultan
Bello's day, Fulani had begun fighting against Fulani. Unfortunately, as the
century advanced, this phenomenon was to become more common.
1.7 SCOPE AND LIMITATION OF THE STUDY
The research project topic is, the role of
women towards socio-economic development which is limited to Kazaure Local
government Area, where the Students is undertaking this research, also
financial problem and lack of transportation, another problem is the most of
our women (the respondents) availability, They answered our Question indirectly
due to these problems, we concentrated on the paper seminars, journal and books
that are related to the topic and which will help us in conducting our research
project successfully.
1.8 DEFINITION OF TERMS
The role of women towards socio-economic
development; the key concept of this project are as follow definition of terms:
SOCIAL
Is the part which individuals are called on the
play in society and then SOCIAL is the enjoying spending time with other
people. Under it, it has almost four to five categories and are as follow:
1.
CONNECTING WITH SOCIETY: It is connected with society and the way it is
organized: social issue/problems/reforms. Which a call for social and economic
change.
This one is connected with position in social
class/background social advancement (improvingposition in society).
2.
ACTIVITIES WITH OTHERS: Is also connected with activities in which
people meet each other for pleasure: a busy/hectic social life e.g. terms
sports help to develop a child's social skills. (the ability to talk easily to
other people and do things in a (dnoj6 social events and training days are
arranged for all the staff join a social club to make new friends. .
3.
ANIMALS
(Technical) - driving naturally in groups rather than alone.
4.
FRIEND:
Sociable-sociably the reforms will bring benefits socially and politically this
type of behaviors is no longer socially acceptable a socially disadvantaged
family (one that is poor and tromp a low social class). We meet at work, but
never socially camisoles are usually socially complex mammals.
5.
ECONOMICS: Is the
study of how a society organizes its money, trade and industry.
6.
DEVELOPMENT: Is the
gradual growth of something, so that, it becomes more advanced, stronger,
e.t.c
7.
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT: The social development has to do with how
individual and collective norms of living in society help to advance the
achievement of the departmental goals and objectives of the society. Therefore,
define as an important of capacity, ability and willingness of people both as
individual and as members of the society to contribute their effort to enhance
the achievement of both individual and society of the department goals. It also
has to do with how the society itself help to prepare itself and its member to
have the capacity, ability and willingness to contribute the advancement of
both individual and society development goals, and social had divided into two
ways, the final definition of social.
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