The Role of Market Women in the Socio-economic Development of the Community (a Study of Lusada Market in Ado-odo Local Government Area, Ogun State Nigeria)
CHAPTER ONE
Objective of the study
The objectives of the study are;
- To identify the role market women play in socioeconomic development of community in Ado-Odo local government area, Ogun state
- To identify the major obstacle market women face in socioeconomic development of community in Ado-Odo local government area, Ogun state
- To access the gender differences over resource control in Ado-Odo local government area, Ogun state.
CHAPTER TWO
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
Women and rural development
Nowadays entrepreneurship among women in has significantly becoming as an important player in shaping the landscape of entrepreneurship (Pages, 2005). Omorode (2014) concluded that organising women is an integral aspect of socio-economic advancement of any nation. Women efforts in developing socio-economic development will be able to optimally utilize if they are been empowered socially, culturally, politically and economically. Karl.M (1995) stated that women’s participation is crucial and in development process and to meeting the development goals and it could not be able to achieve without their full involvement. Most of the research concluded that majority of the women’s performing dual role in the family which are reproductive and productive, which making them overloading in performing extra job load. However their effort was not been recognized accordingly especially their role as a main socioeconomic contributor in community in general and specifically in the family. According to Malaysia Economic Planning Unit statistic (Economic Planning Unit Report: 2010), women represents almost 50% of the Malaysia population by gender comparing to men. Despite of the rate which almost similar to men, their opportunities and benefits in gaining the developments has not been explored and exposed to the public. As of assumptions on the women who are prone more to the task on the “home and kitchen”, their capabilities in handling a challenge responsibilities for the development of their family and in their community, especially in rural area was considered as incapable and incompetence to hold and executing the responsibilities.
Education background and women entrepreneurs
Grise.T (1990) found that one third of women entrepreneurs having a working experience before starting their entrepreneurship. Women entrepreneurs experienced are including their education level, administrative, secretarial, artistic, personal marketing, sales, advising, and finance (Kim, 1996). As known, women been born with natural vocational skills and had went through unofficial education from their parents about life skills such as cooking, arrange dressing and all task related to the household. In directly, this skill can be developing to be come as one of business aspect which can generate an income for them. However, there is also a research that proving there is no relationship between education and the successfulness in entrepreneurship. According to Stuart and Abetti (1990) there is situation based on the research where the high education degree holder incompetence and incapable in performing a good performance task related to the business. Based on Rajani and Sarada (2008) research result, it was revealed that 85% of the women entrepreneurs are having low level of education up to secondary qualification. The result from their research has proven that an influence factors for women to involve in entrepreneurship are not reflects from their education level (Rani, 1992).
CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Research design
The researcher used descriptive research survey design in building up this project work the choice of this research design was considered appropriate because of its advantages of identifying attributes of a large population from a group of individuals. The design was suitable for the study as the study sought to the role of market women in the socio-economic development of the community ( a study of Lusada Market in Ado-Odo local government area, Ogun state Nigeria)
Sources of data collection
Data were collected from two main sources namely:
(i)Primary source and
(ii)Secondary source
Primary source:
These are materials of statistical investigation which were collected by the research for a particular purpose. They can be obtained through a survey, observation questionnaire or as experiment; the researcher has adopted the questionnaire method for this study.
Secondary source:
These are data from textbook Journal handset etc. they arise as byproducts of the same other purposes. Example administration, various other unpublished works and write ups were also used.
Population of the study
Population of a study is a group of persons or aggregate items, things the researcher is interested in getting information the role of market women in the socio-economic development of the community. 200 Lusada Market women in Ado-Odo local government area, Ogun state Nigeria was selected randomly by the researcher as the population of the study.
CHAPTER FOUR
PRESENTATION ANALYSIS INTERPRETATION OF DATA
Introduction
Efforts will be made at this stage to present, analyze and interpret the data collected during the field survey. This presentation will be based on the responses from the completed questionnaires. The result of this exercise will be summarized in tabular forms for easy references and analysis. It will also show answers to questions relating to the research questions for this research study. The researcher employed simple percentage in the analysis.
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
Introduction
It is important to ascertain that the objective of this study was to ascertain the role of market women in the socio-economic development of the community (a study of Lusada Market in Ado-Odo local government area, Ogun state Nigeria). In the preceding chapter, the relevant data collected for this study were presented, critically analyzed and appropriate interpretation given. In this chapter, certain recommendations made which in the opinion of the researcher will be of benefits in addressing the challenges of market women in the socio-economic development of the community
Summary
This study was on the role of market women in the socio-economic development of the community ( a study of Lusada Market in Ado-Odo local government area, Ogun state Nigeria). Three objectives were raised which included: To identify the role market women play in socioeconomic development of community in Ado-Odo local government area, Ogun state, to identify the major obstacle market women face in socioeconomic development of community in Ado-Odo local government area, Ogun state and to access the gender differences over resource control in Ado-Odo local government area, Ogun state. The total population for the study is 200 women of Ado-Odo local government area, Ogun state. The researcher used questionnaires as the instrument for the data collection. Descriptive Survey research design was adopted for this study. A total of 133 respondents made married, single ladies, civil servants and students were used for the study. The data collected were presented in tables and analyzed using simple percentages and frequencies
Conclusion
With regards to the finding, in overall it can be concluding that women did play a role in developing rural area in improving community’s socio-economy development even though the significant of contribution may arguable compare to the man which not included in this research. Women as an entrepreneur in rural area are capable in managing their own business despite of low education level and limited capital in developing their business. However, they are able succeeded in the entrepreneurial field by proper aids provided for them to have better managing systems for their business as an effort for becoming more competitive in the market.
Recommendation
Cultural practices that denies women free access to land, relegates women to the background and regard them as second class citizens should be abrogated.
Government in partnership with community development partners should not only provide modern farm implements such as tractor, planters, harvesters etc to the rural women farmers but also educate them on how to use these implements to enhance their production since the lives of millions of Nigerians depends heavily on proceeds from agriculture
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