Advancing gender equality and women empowerment in academia: The case of Lagos State

Abstract

Advancing gender equality is now a widely accepted and recognized fact. The success of national development goals has also been noted as being critically dependent on gender issues. In actuality, achieving gender equality is not only considered as a means in and of itself, but also as a catalyst and prerequisite to the realization of sustainable development. Using enrollment in primary, secondary, and higher education as three key indicators, this research aimed to measure the extent of gender parity and women's empowerment. It made use of useful secondary sources of data. The study contends that the Lagos State government's action quandary, which has made it more difficult to increase the capacity level needed to better accommodate the varying needs of both male and female gender, is at the root of the problem of gender disparity in Lagos State. It also claims that the achievement of gender equality in Lagos State, which is already time-barred, will be a mirage due to multidimensional constraints. This essay, which went on to argue that the realization of gender equality and women's empowerment depends on the desirability and necessity of a pragmatic strategy, comes to a reasonable resolution.