Why Nigerian women won’t occupy elective, appointive positions in 2019

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Since 1999 that Nigeria returned to democratic governance after many years of the military rules, many statistics have emerged on the elective and appointive positions occupied by men and women. Dissecting the statistics, Political Analysts and civil societies believe that women have not had it good when it comes to representation in the three arms of government.
A recent report from the National Bureau of Statistics, the country agency responsible for national data management, shows that representation at National Parliament was 94.71 per cent male and 5.76 per cent female from 1999-2015. At the Upper House, female members constituted 5.50% while male members formed the remaining 94.50%. The report further indicates that the percentages of female and male in the Lower House were 5.83 per cent and 94.17 per cent respectively. Representation at the State Assemblies recorded 5.29 per cent female and 94.71 per cent male.
The existing data have shown that, indeed, men are being represented than women in Nigerian political structure, indicating that political representation is biased towards the women. Why the unequal representation?  
Why women are at the back

Contrary to the connection of the less representation of the women in the country’s political structure to socio-economic and cultural issues, analysis has shown that educational attainment of women is not sufficient to give them edge over their men counterparts in elective and appointive positions. Analysis suggests that from 2014 to 2016, men had higher rate of completing higher education especially university education than women.
Women educational attainment did not determine their representation in elective and appointive positions despite positive movement with the number of positions held in the last 16 years. Educational attainment of women ensured 81.8% representation
Likewise, men educational attainment did not determine their representation. The educational attainment move in negative direction with the number of positions held in the last 16 years. However, analysis shows that educational status of the Nigerian men enhanced their representation by 97.3%.
Significant insight from the analysis is that men are occupying elective and appointive positions through other means not educational attainment. This indicates that concerned stakeholders need to intensify efforts on awareness campaign in order to ensure substantial women in elective and appointive positions in 2019.
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