Abstract
This article examined legal and institutional frameworks on gender imbalance and women’s rights in Nigeria. There is need for equal treatment of everyone irrespective of gender. Nigerian women face a lot of discrimination capable of limiting their opportunities to develop their full potential based on equality with the men. Women are far from enjoying equal rights in the Nigeria’s social, economic and political spaces, due mainly to their domestic burden, poverty, low level of educational attainment, biases against their employment in certain branches of the economy or types of work they are allowed to undertake as well as discriminatory salary practices. There is need for equal treatment of everyone irrespective of gender. Gender balance is important in a society as it allows males and females to have equal opportunities to fully realize their human rights and contribute to and benefit from social, economic, political, and political cultural development. Gender discourse is very significant everywhere, calling to attention the unnecessary difference between the locations of men and the women in the State and the society in nearly every facet of life. It is recommended amongst others that section 17(3) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) should be made part of the justiciable provisions of Chapter IV thereof by way of amendment as this will promote gender balance in the economic space of the country.