By Ajibo, Regina Ngozi
The study was carried out in order to find out the factors affecting women's participation
in Adult Education Programme in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State.
Five research questions and one hypothesis were formulated to provide a direction for the
study.
The population of the study comprises of all the women enrollees in Adult Education
programme centres in Nsukka. The population, therefore consists of one thousand, two
hundred and thirty seven women participants in the 25 Adult Education centres in
Nsukka Local Government Area.
Some of the major findings of the study were as follows:
I. The respondents rated child bearing makes women to drop out from adult
education programmes as the major problem of child bearing to women
education.
2. The respondents rated culture limits women roles to home chores as the major
cultural impediment to women education.
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The following recommendations were made In order to improve women's participation in
Adult Education programme:
1. The Nsukka women should be given an intensive training in family planning and
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child spacing by the community health workers. This will help to reduce the
strain of child bearing and allow women more time for their adult educational
programmes.
2. The emphasis placed on culture and its practices has been emphasized. Women
should be liberated especially from such cultural practices that hinder their
participation in adult education programmes. This can only be achieved through
the education of women themselves.
3. Women should be made to be economically dependent. Vocational and skills
acquisition programmes should be made available to the women in Ministries of
Women Affairs, Ministry of Employment and Productivity and other agencies of social welfare services.