WOMEN ENTREPRENEURIAL SKILLS ACQUISITION AS CORRELATES OF WOMEN PARTICIPATION IN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTH-EAST, NIGERIA

Emeka Ifeoma Ejeh (PhD), Paul Ikechukwu Ifere (PhD), Sylvester Nwigwe Ogbueghu (PhD), Uguba Chinyere Otuu

Abstract


The study investigated women education and Entrepreneurial skills acquisition as correlates of women participation in community development in communities in South-East, Nigeria.  Four research questions and four null hypotheses guided the study.  Correlational survey research design was adopted for the study. The area of the study was communities in South-East, Nigeria. A population of 9,315 women who participate in the 2021/2022 Community-Based Education Programme was used for the study. A sample of 384 women sampled from the population using multi-stage sampling procedure and Taro Yamane’s Proportional Sampling Technique were used for the study. Questionnaire was used for data collection. The instrument was trial-tested on 20 women who participate in Community-Based Education Programme in Kogi State and Cronbach Alpha reliability coefficient was used to calculate the reliability indices and the instrument yielded the overall reliability coefficient of 0.80. Data collected were analyzed using Pearson product moment Correlation coefficient. The null hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance using analysis of variance which is an aspect of Simple Linear Regression. The findings revealed that there is high positive relationship   between   women entrepreneurial skills   acquisition and women participation in community development in the areas of economic development and infrastructural development. Based on the findings, recommendations were also made and among them are that the society should encourage women education and Entrepreneurial skills acquisition that will prepare women for public sector employment and private sector Entrepreneurial practice for self sustained and for effective participation in community development. The study also recommends that curriculum experts should overhaul educational curricula content at every level of education so that education attained at any level should be skill-oriented for meaningful development. This will ensure that any education that women acquire will enable them to participate in community development.


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