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Title: | Housing: A Critical Need of Nigerian Women |
Author: | Makinwa-Adebusoye, Paulina |
Year: | 1990 |
Periodical: | African Urban Quarterly (ISSN 0747-6108) |
Volume: | 5 |
Issue: | 3-4 |
Period: | August-November |
Pages: | 207-215 |
Language: | English |
Notes: | biblio. refs. |
Geographic terms: | Nigeria West Africa |
Subjects: | housing housing policy women Development and Technology Urbanization and Migration Women's Issues urbanization Politics and Government gender |
Abstract: | The past two decades have witnessed an unprecedented awareness of the many disadvantages which Nigerian women confront as a direct result of their gender and their subordinate position within the national socioeconomic order. The author examines the critical needs of Nigerian women in the field of housing with a view to assessing the effectiveness of past strategies of federal and state government to meet those needs. She first presents an overview of the needs of women, with special emphasis on the needs of rural women, migrants and the urban poor. She then describes and assesses some of the strategies adopted by federal and state governments, such as the direct construction of housing, site and service schemes, squatter upgrading and arrangements for credit facilities to home owners. The review of women's housing conditions in Nigeria shows that the majority of women in urban and rural areas are among the poorest class of Nigerians. Women's housing needs must be explicitly recognized and given special attention. Bibliogr., sum. |