The Historical Development of Women Career in Corporate Sector in Nigeria

Journal Title: Asian Journal Social Sciences & Humanities - Year 2014, Vol 3, Issue 1

Abstract

In recent decades, the dominant international view has been that housekeeping and childcare are the primary functions of the woman because nurturing and childcare are viewed as feminine traits. Thus, any other work place is not the concern area of women and that career and professional advancement is deemed unimportant to them Eun, (2011). Historically, women entered workforce during the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, while men took off to serve the Army. With the passage of time, with decreases in job security and wages for males which have negatively impacted the ability of the sole breadwinner family model, there was increase pressure for women to work outside the home in a dual-earner family model (Setsuya, 2013). In Nigeria, involvement of women career in corporate sector gained momentum in the latter half of the 1980s as Omu & Makinwa (1987) argued, Women's involvement became more pronounced in 1995 as a result of the effective participation of Nigerian women in the international conference on women in Beijing, China. However, this article reviews the development of working women in various corporate sectors in Nigeria through the use of secondary sources data because in today's world, companies and industries require women to control a majority of their activities, since women tend to bring higher efficiency, effectiveness and peculiarity to the work they engage in. Suggestions were made on how to encourage women career participation, because their convincing power skyrockets the corporate atmosphere and their participation are also of immense benefits to the family budget.

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Dosumu George, Olayemi Ogunniyi

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Dosumu George, Olayemi Ogunniyi (2014). The Historical Development of Women Career in Corporate Sector in Nigeria. Asian Journal Social Sciences & Humanities, 3(1), 48-52. https://www.europub.co.uk/articles/-A-105533