GENDER EQUALITY PART 4-GENDER MAINSTREAMING.

MAJOR CAUSES OF MATERNAL DEATHS AND PERCENTAGE DISTRIBUTION

Hemorrhage(Excessive Bleeding) 23%
Eclampsis(Hypertention in prenancy) 11%
-Obstructed labour 11%
-Anaemia 11%

-Malaria 11%
-Unsafe Abortion 11%
-HIV 5%

MAJOR CAUSES OF DEATHS IN CHILDREN UNDER 5 YEARS AND PERCENTAGE DISTRIBUTION.
-Neonatal condition 26%.
Pneumonia Chest Infection 24%
-Diarrhea 16%
-Measles 6%
-HIV/AIDS 5%
-Others 3%

ECONOMIC SECTOR

-60-79% of the rural work force is women but men are five times more likely to own land. A case where a husband and wife had worked in the farm when they are returning home the wife will carry all the load..
.A strong correlation is found between Nigerian girls school attendance and wealth.

POLITICAL SECTOR

-Nigeria is far from the target set by NGP(National Gender Policy) in political participation(35%).
-Though Nigeria is signatory to many of the international treaties/declaration on gender equality, it has failed to translate this into concrete actions.

-WOMEN VIOLENCE

-up to one third of Nigerian women report that they had been subjected to some form of violence or the other. One in five has experienced physical violence.
-One in three Nigeria women and girls aged 15-24 have been victims of violence.
Husband eating up his wife and after still have sex with her, different cases of rape. Wife cooking for husband after receiving beatings from him etc.
See you in part 5 sweeties.