What Are the Necessary Areas to Improve the Movement for Women Empowerment in Nigeria?
Education. Workplace parity. Political influence. Further improvement is vital in each of these areas in order to propel forward the Nigerian women’s empowerment movement. Women have made big strides in the 21 st century, with more earning college degrees and using them to develop professional careers. Nigeria’s once entrenched culture of male dominance has eased, albeit gradually, and women have gained clout on university campuses, in corporate offices, in the halls of government. Nigerian Senator Nenadi Usman, among the women minority in the National Assembly, lends prominence to that cultural advance. A senator since 2011, Nenadi Usman built upon her college education and post-graduate diploma to rise through the ranks of public service and attain a powerful voice for women and equality. She began as a classroom teacher, went on to work for the governor of Kaduna and later became the Nigerian Minister of State for Finance. As a leader in the Peopl...