Negotiating power and privilege : Igbo career women in contemporary Nigeria /

"Negotiating Power and Privilege captures the voices of female African professionals and vividly portrays their continuous negotiations as workers and as wives, mothers, and single women. It serves as a reality check to policies in developing nations that prescribe secondary and advanced educat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Okeke-Ihejirika, Philomina E. (Philomina Ezeagbor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens [Ohio] : Center for International Studies, Ohio University, ©2004.
Colección:Research in international studies. Africa series ; no. 82.
Temas:
Women, Igbo > Social conditions.
Women, Igbo > Economic conditions.
Women, Igbo > Employment.
Women employees > Nigeria.
Working mothers > Nigeria.
Sex role > Government policy > Nigeria.
Women > Government policy > Nigeria.
Sexual division of labor > Nigeria.
Femmes ibo > Conditions sociales.
Femmes ibo > Conditions économiques.
Femmes ibo > Travail.
Personnel féminin > Nigeria.
Mères au travail > Nigeria.
Rôle selon le sexe > Politique gouvernementale > Nigeria.
Femmes > Politique gouvernementale > Nigeria.
Economic history
Sex role > Government policy
Sexual division of labor
Social conditions
Women employees
Women > Government policy
Women, Igbo > Social conditions
Working mothers
Karriere
Frau
Nigeria > Social conditions.
Nigeria > Economic conditions.
Nigeria > Conditions économiques.
Nigeria
Ibo.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Placing Igbo women within an African context
  • Gender relations in family and society
  • From housewives to career women
  • Your life is not entirely your business
  • Gendered lives, gendered aspirations
  • Making it in paid employment
  • Balancing act
  • Ours is ours but my own is my own
  • Looking to the future.

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