A Historical Look at the Transformation Agenda: Patriarchal Structures, Hegemony and the Fate of Nigerian Women
Keywords:
Nigerian women, economic policy, development plan, transformation agenda, patriarchyAbstract
Development plans and economic manifestoes have become common for setting the goals and pace of administration in modern Africa. There are differences between plans and the realities of executing them. Many reasons mark the failures of such development agendas, especially when they involve women's empowerment. Nigeria adopted a 5-year development plan under the presidency of President Goodluck Jonathan, known as the Transformation Agenda. The extent to which the Agenda affected Nigerian women and the attendant weaknesses of the project in the context of Nigeria's status as a developing economy and patriarchal structures and hegemonic control is the main focus of the study. The paper relied on both primary and secondary sources in a chronological and thematic analysis of the subject matter. It was realised that the patriarchy and the attendant political instability, neo-liberal economic system, mismanagement and corruption, which dogged the Administration of President Jonathan and cultural influences were crucial to the persistence of gender inequalities in Nigeria.
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