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Nigeria has a long history of gender inequality and discrimination against women. Women in Nigeria face a number of challenges, including limited access to education, health care, and economic opportunities. [8] Women are also disproportionately affected by poverty, violence, and other forms of discrimination.
In Nigeria, the lifetime risk of death for pregnant women is 1 in 22. [6] The country has restrictive abortion laws, limiting access to safe procedures and increasing risks associated with unsafe abortions. [11] A 2019 study highlighted insufficient skills in emergency obstetric care among healthcare providers. [12]
Female empowerment in Nigeria is an economic process that involves empowering Nigerian women as a poverty reduction measure. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Empowerment is the development of women in terms of politics, social and economic strength in nation development.
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Female husbands [4] on the other hand, were women who assumed roles typically associated with men, including the responsibilities of a husband within a marriage. This practice was often linked to issues of infertility, as a woman might take on the role of a husband to ensure the continuity of her family line.
Retaining health care professionals is an important objective. Survey shows looming brain drain in Nigeria's health sector in the rising trend of emigration of healthcare personnel – physicians, pharmacists, nurses, laboratory scientists, physiotherapists and many others have difficulty getting into paid employment. Many fresh doctors, out of ...
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Achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls is the fifth Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) but In Nigeria, it faces many problems due to many different resolutions not being in line with the religious and cultural beliefs of most of the Nigerian population and thus, unworthy to be enacted as a Nigerian law. [9]