Women Empowerment And Community Development

ABSTRACTThe participation of women in development programmes is well documented in the last two decades in the developed world. In the developing countries, however, such studies are still very scanty and fragmented as the roles of women in development efforts are hardly acknowledged. This paper examines the participatory role of women in community development in the rural areas and why they should be empowered, using Oviogie community in Edo State, as an example. Based on a random sampling of 101 women and men selected from the community, the study attributes the low participation of women in…