WOMEN AND POLITICS IN NIGERIA

This study is aimed at determining the extent to
which socio-economic and·proximate variables affect
Nigerian women's participation in politics.
The scope of the study covered women in Ibadan and
Lagos areas. Questionnaire was designed to find answers to
the research questions formulated. The questionnaire of
thirty three items was administered to two hundred and twenty
women, both literate and non-literate. A handful of women
were interviewed directly on the normal face-to-face base.