Feminisation Of Poverty An Impediment To Entrepreneurial Spirit Among Nigerian Women

Women low participation as entrepreneurs from their male counterparts in is associated with cultural, religious and patriarchal constrains. This trend is prominent in Nigeria, economically some feminist perceive women's marginality in the conduct of managing businesses as arising from their entrenchment to the globalised capitalist production relation. A relation, that ensures that majority of Nigerian women are peasants and housewives. Women are suppose to make significant contribution in terms of wealth creation through small scale businesses, farming and other extra means of wealth creation, but all that is considered as part of women's domestic role. An assessment of the “feminization of poverty” in Nigeria is attributed to three contributing factors that have been underscored and dampens the entrepreneurial spirit among women; (1) the growth of female-headed households, (2) intra-household inequalities and bias against women and girls, and (3) neoliberal economic policies, including structural adjustments. The growing visibility of women's poverty, it is argued, is rooted in these demographic trends,