Women’s Affirmative Policy Implementation in Kokona Local Government Area, Nasarawa Slate, Nigeria

The metamorphosis of the traditional child-bearing role of women during the medieval era to one of corporate, administrative and political guru in contemporaiy era has been phenomenal. In response to modernism, and the resentment by women against unfavourable gender discrimination, many countries of the world: USA (1961), Malaysia (1970), Sri Lanka (1981), Taiwan (2004) and UK (2010), etc, have adopted various policies aimed at increasing women’s participation in public and private sectors, by closing the inherent systemic gender-discriminatoty gaps. In Nigeria, similar agitations for capacitating women have been mounted through Women’s Affirmative Charter of Demand, which received Federal Government’s impetus through the National Gender Policy in 2006, with practical provision to reserve at least 35 per cent of available public offices for women in order to lay the foundation for mainstreaming women into higher public participation. Notwithstanding, the imperative of Affirmative Policy in promoting the role of women in national development in Nigeria, it had been alleged by analysts that Policy implementation remained shambolic across the various tiers of government, with progressive deficit at the munical level. The objective of this study is to examine the status of Affirmative Policy implementation in Kokona Local Governmnet. Given that Affirmative Policy is intandem with contemporaiy global adjustments, this study is principally underpinned by modernization theory>. * Data on the discrepancies between the actual and expected female employmeijtRevels in Kokona Local Government during the study period 2010-2019 was analysed using Chi-square statistical method. Evidence from the findings show a Women’s Affirmative Policy Implementation in Kokona Local Government Area, Nasarawa State, Nigeria discrepancy between the actual and expected levels of women employment during the period. Consequently, it *was recommended that, among others, implementation of Affirmative' Policy should be constitutionalized, to compel compliance in Nigeria.