WHY AGITATING FOR GENDER EQUITY STILL MATTERS
Nigeria has one of the youngest populations in the world with 63% (123 million) of people under 24 years old. Around 60 million or 31% of young people are between the ages of 0 and 9, with more boys (31 million) than girls (29 million).
The primary focus of AfrimadPH Tv new strategy is to support girls, especially adolescents, to reach their full potential.
As part of this goal, we are supporting adolescent girls to join the gender equality movement and become advocates as part of the global Gender Equality campaign.
We believe girls deserve more recognition and respect for their rights to be seen, to be heard and to have a say in how their future will be shaped.
The young campaigners also submitted a charter of demands which call for:
A 23.2% increase in female participation and representation in governance
Protection against all forms of abuse and harassment
Increased investment on the sensitisation and awareness on issues affecting children, especially girls and young women
Enforcement of section 18 of the Nigerian constitution that says education is free.
Beyond the educational field, there are other strong injustices against women: their reduced political representation and unequal salaries they receive, their almost exclusive responsibility for domestic work and the care of people, the criminalization of abortion and violence, once the rates of feminicide in the region remain alarming.
All these elements reveal that gender equality is still far from being fully accomplished, and the change in this scenario depends on a cultural transformation and the change of ingrained thoughts, what we understand will only become possible from reflection and a critical look on reality, elements that can and should be promoted in education and through it.
Quality sexual reproductive health and rights for young women and girls.
Root cause of gender inequality in Nigeria
this is because in Nigeria gender equality is actually a contentious issue as many people including importantly law and policy makers often enterpret demand for it as woman's desire to become men kabeer (2013) offers a useful clarification the meaning of equality by breaking it down into three essential formal substantive and agential equality.
Buy formal equality she refers to equal treatment under the law and equal opportunity.
Substantive equality implies that the peculiar circumstances of individuals and groups, eg women and men need to be taken into account to avoid disadvantage or unfair outcome in development programming or policy formulation and implementation. Substantive implies equity that is proportionality in the degree of access to the benefit and cost of development and also redistributive justice, grounded in collective solidarity.
Agential equality implies that both women and men have the ability to make strategic choices for themselves taking account of the circumstances under which such choices are made.
The first step in overcoming discrimination is to recognize that it exists in all forms and stages of education. We argue that everyone should have equal access to the rights to education for gender equality and comprehensive sex education, since discussing these issues represents not only addressing the rights of girls and women, but also to ponder on gender roles and stereotypes in our societies, which includes questioning and rebuilding our concepts of femininity and masculinity so that they are more responsive and responsive, and seeking to build ever more inclusive, peaceful and democratic societies.
How comprehensive sex education can promote gender equality.....
comprehensive sex education is not just about reproduction, prevention of sexually transmitted diseases and early pregnancy, or the changing bodies of students during puberty. Comprehensive sexual education goes beyond these factors, and is related to knowledge about one’s own body and its care, reflection on the meanings of sexuality, and the relationships and relations between boys and girls.
From this perspective, teachers and students can recognize and value differences and similarities between genders, overcoming stereotypes and prejudices, an important work to be done since childhood education, not only in adolescence, since integral sexual education also has the role of preventing and combating cases of violence against children, starting from the space of dialogue and the relationship of trust that creates between students, teachers and guardian.
Hence, it is fundamental that education promotes, for boys and girls, a learning experience based on the freedom of expression, self-knowledge and recognition of one’s own identities and sexualities.
Definitely, women speaks more about it because it happens most to women but it will shock you'all to know how many men also are suffering from it yet standing firm and trying to be a man. Cause MEN don't cry syndrome is giving him a face to present yet inwardly he cries worse than a baby. And believe me, that hurts more. It could lead to suicide/murder, insanity and all sort of malicious occurrence.
ردحذفGender Equality stands as a reminder to men especially, you won't hit your spouse or opposite sex (sister/friend/colleague) if you have a conscious reasoning that goes a long way to subconsciously put you on check, knowing Men and Women are equal before the creator. What's different is the approach system in relating with each other, one to be respected and honored as a King and the other to be Loved and cherished as a Queen. Life will be obviously sweeter if this happens in every aspect of life.
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