Gender Equality

This study explores the intersection of social work, gender equality, and women's empowerment in Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria. It examines the role of social work in promoting gender equality and empowering women, highlighting the challenges and opportunities in this context. The study employs a Survey Research Design method of data collection. The findings reveal that social work interventions can significantly impact women's empowerment and gender equality, but face challenges such as cultural and societal norms, limited resources, and inadequate policy implementation. The study concludes that social work can play a vital role in promoting gender equality and women's empowerment in Benin City, and recommends increased investment in social work programs, policy reforms, and community engagement.

This study examined feminism and women education, assessing its impact on gender equality. The objectives of the study were to investigate the impact of gender inequality on women's level of education in Egor LGA of Benin City, examine the consequence of male sexism on women's political participation, and evaluate the outcome of gender disparity on women's employment status. The research design adopted is the one-shot or cross sectional design. This entails the collection of data
only once from the sampled study participants. This research design was adopted because the data needed for the study would best be obtained with this form of research design. The analysis of the different categories of the quantitative data was
presented with frequencies, percentages, tables, charts and cross tabulations. The findings from the study revealed that there exist a positive relationship between gender inequality and women’s education attainment in Egor LGA of Benin City, there is a link between male sexism (bigotry) and women political participation in Egor LGA of Benin City, and there is a significant relationship between gender disparity and women’s employment opportunities in Egor LGA of Benin City. The study recommended that the governments (national and sub-national) should prioritize their goals to put more focus on ensuring that there are equal rights, equal opportunities, equal working conditions and the stoppage of all forms of gender discrimination and bias in order to increase women’s capacity and efforts towards economic growth and development, Nigerians at all levels, from the family unit up to the institutions and work organizations, particularly those at the management positions, should realize the need for a gender balanced society and encourage women’s increased and effective participation and contribution to their own
individual and collective economic development and national productivity. The Economic policies of governments should be geared towards the creation of jobs, and the girl-child education should be encouraged, so as to give the female folks a sense
of belonging in the society and encourage them to make positive impact in their families.

The study of the place of women in the socio-political and economic life of the society from the early period to the present has aroused a wide range of interests amongst scholars and writers in recent times. Over the last few decades, the contribution of African women to international relations and socio-economic development has been increasingly recognized in both academia and policy circles.1 This growing recognition reflects the active participation of women in various aspects of international organizational, both through formal and informal production in recent years. Women represent half the population of Africa, and although they are considered internationally as one of the main pillars of economic development, they have suffered from an unjust social heritage in addition to discriminatory practices both in terms of gender equality and in the market.2 This reflected on their social, educational and cultural situation. Although some progress has been made in an attempt to address women in Africa and their role in social and economic life, there are still social and economic challenges that prevent the African Women from being enabled