LADY HARDING

NIGERIA WOMEN ACTIVIST & POLITICIAN

Women have a lot power and need to be empowered to build their confidence and overcome negative cultural practices that still keep them in bondage. The current war of equality between men and women will one day afford women the chance to prove their worth on the political scene in the same way they have excelled in other fields of human endeavour.

          Today, women have not achieved equality and their potential is not adequately tapped politically. So far, the nation has recorded percentage involvement of women in governance. In 1996, women had only 6percent  of ministerial and sub-ministerial appointments in a country that has the largest population on the African continent with many women striving  for full and equal participation in governance.

          In  the past two decades, in the poorest countries of the world, economic restructuring programmes agreed by male dominated governments and led intenational organisation, have heat human hardest. In terms of human civil rights, only 44 have laws against domestic violence, 17 countries have made marital rape a criminal offence, and 27 countries have passed laws on sexual harassment. These are names of  the woman activist.

Kudirat Abiola, Simbiat Abiola Lady Kofo Ademola, Toyin Adewale, Queen Amina of Zaria, MoremiAjasoro, Bonlale Awe, Lola Ayorinde, Buchi Emecheta Rebecca ikpe, Major General Aderonke Kale, Funmilayo Ransome Kuti, Dr.Bene Madunagu, Flora Nwapan Chief Bisi Ogunleye, Dr. Elizabeth Dupeojo, Synclair, Mrs.Bisoye Tejuosho, MadamTinubu, Hajara Usman, Mrs. Grace Alele Williams Diana Wiwa