{"id":6074,"date":"2025-06-24T21:19:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T21:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ijssass.com\/journal\/feminism-and-gender-discrimination-in-northeastern-nigeria-a-review\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T04:17:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T04:17:50","slug":"feminism-and-gender-discrimination-in-northeastern-nigeria-a-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ijssass.com\/journal\/feminism-and-gender-discrimination-in-northeastern-nigeria-a-review\/","title":{"rendered":"FEMINISM AND GENDER DISCRIMINATION IN NORTHEASTERN NIGERIA: A REVIEW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally published as: <strong>FEMINISM AND GENDER DISCRIMINATION IN NORTHEASTERN NIGERIA: A REVIEW<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Original Article Link: <a href='https:\/\/wissjournals.com.ng\/index.php\/wiss\/article\/view\/584' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Download PDF: <a href='https:\/\/wissjournals.com.ng\/index.php\/wiss\/article\/download\/584\/527' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Click Here to Download PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Abstract<\/h2>\n<p>It is a universal fact that women, unlike men gender used to be marginalized, oppressed, abused, and deprived their socio-economic, educational, political and legal rights. This necessitated a broader global feminist movement to advocate for equal rights and opportunities of all genders. This paper titled &#8220;Feminism and Gender Discrimination in Northeast Nigeria: A Theoretical Perspective on Northeastern Nigeria&#8221; presents an attempt to examine the existing discrimination of women with regards to their socio-economic, political, educational and legal rights in Northeastern Nigeria.&nbsp; The paper uses secondary source of data collection through major instruments such as textbooks, journals, online publications, among others, while content method of data analysis was explored in the analysis of the data collated. The research also employs Legal feminist theories as its theoretical framework. Some of the findings of the paper reveals that, religion, culture, societal division of labour, among other things, contribute a lot in promoting gender discrimination in Northeastern Nigeria. The paper recommends for a designed policy that is &#8220;northeastern-centric&#8221; in nature that would address a notion of &#8220;men gender naturally ahead&#8221;; strengthen the activities of nongovernmental organizations for their advocacy against gender discrimination, and so forth.<\/p>\n<h2>Authors<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>ANAS  ABUBAKAR (DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF KASHERE, GOMBE STATE, NIGERIA)<\/li>\n<li>AMINU ABDULLAHI  SALE (DEPARTMENT OF DEFENCE AND SECURITY STUDIES, FACULTY OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, NIGERIAN DEFENCE ACADEMY, KADUNA, NIGERIA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Keywords<\/h2>\n<p>Feminism, Gender, Discrimination, Analysis, Movement, Northeast<\/p>\n<h2>References<\/h2>\n<p>References not available for this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally published as: FEMINISM AND GENDER DISCRIMINATION IN NORTHEASTERN NIGERIA: A REVIEW Original Article Link: Read Original&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[2713,516,1447,1580,2714,2715],"class_list":["post-6074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-analysis","tag-discrimination","tag-feminism","tag-gender","tag-movement","tag-northeast","wpcat-124-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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