GENDER DISCRIMINATION IN THE SOCIETY

Gender discrimination can be described as the violation of Human right as regard sexuality. This is common with women and Famine gender. In this write up we are going to look in to laws protecting Gender discrimination as basked up in the Constitution of Federal Republic of Nigeria:

                “According to Section 17(1)(2) of 1999 constitution of

                Federal Republic of Nigeria which says: That every citizen

                shall have the equality of right Obligation and opportunity

                before the law; Section 42 of the same constitution also

                says that no Nigerian citizen shall be discriminated against

                because of sex, religion or ethnic group”. And it also

guarantees the right to private and family life”

furthermore, Article 18(3) of West African Charter

on the people’s Human Right also frown against

discriminatory practices on the grown of sex”

The above law is a sanction on discrimination of Gender. Whether a female or male gender has equal right as regards the law of constitution of Federal republic of Nigeria; here we are focusing mainly on female gender violation as well as discrimination. Before this vision 2020 in Nigeria, women in our society especially in under developed countries like Nigeria has experienced this ill-treatment of weaker sex vessel syndrome, whereby they are denied their right to participate or hold a sensitive position in the society. This dehumanization has subjected our women to a state of despondency and making them inferior compared to their foreign or western counterparts. Before the promulgation of the above law, our women hardly heads offices in public service talk more of political Post. Even when the strong and determined ones from wealthy families who studied in the western world and understood their right as regards gender equality participated in politics, but the male gender will use every tactics and weapons they understood well to chance them out of their aspiring positions.

Also in this gender discrimination is violation of female counterpart: This Gender based violation occurs in all societies of the world within the home or in the wider communities and it affects women and young girls disproportionately. This write up will continue with some Gender based violation like Rape, Commercial sexual exploitation, domestic violence, and female genital Mutilation. We are also going to look into the causes and effect of gender based violence especially on females. It will also suggest in advance what social studies curriculum of Educational system should contain so as to solve the problem of gender based violation in the society.

The world is featured with violence against women; this is generally present in many forms like: battling, Sexual Assault and abuse. Female genital mutilation and rape in war and peace time etc. Gender- based violence is fate of millions of women all over the world and these are affecting their productivity both in the Homes, communities and places of work. There are different types of Gender-based violation which occurs at different levels like within the families and inside homes or apartment in schools.

Violation against women within general community includes battling, rape and social assault, forced treatments , exploitation and commercialization of women’s bodies. The social exclusion of women in some parts of the world. In general and the purdah system in the Northern part of Nigeria in particular are among the violence against women that perpetrated by the state.

Gender –based violence is a universal reality existing in all societies regardless of income, class and culture. It would be difficult to find one woman whom at one time or the other in her life time had not been afraid merely because she was a women. Those women who are particularly vulnerable to violence are those who live in extremely precarious conditions or who are discriminated against on the basis of race, Language, ethnic group, culture, age, opinion, religion, or membership in minority group.

Let’s join hands to promote Gender Equality in Nigeria and our society at large as it brings peace, development and civilization amongst the citizens of the nations. It is right to share things equally, so that there will be peace in the Society. Encourage Gender Equality.

ONYIA EMEKA HARFORD

(PUBLISHER/WRITER: +2348186388641)