TVET, Empowerment and Poverty Alleviation Among Women in Ogun State, Nigeria
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Keywords: Technical and Vocational Education and Training, Women Empowerment, Poverty AlleviationAbstract
This study focuses on TVET as a strategy for the empowerment and poverty reduction among women in Ogun State, Nigeria. It specifically examined technical and vocational skill areas which women can embrace and the extent to which they could be effective in empowering women and reducing poverty among them. The study is a survey of an ex post facto design and the population comprised women in both formal and informal technical and vocation education and training as well as those in technical and vocation businesses in Ogun State. Simple random sampling technique was adopted to select 250 women from the study population as the sample. A structured questionnaire with a 4-point likert type scale was used as the instrument of data collection. Data were analysed with simple percentage and frequency counts and the hypotheses were subjected to ordinary least square regression of two separate models for women empowerment and poverty reduction as functions of TVET. It was found that TVET, if well implemented and embraced, will significantly enhance women empowerment and serve as an effective instrument in reducing poverty among women in Ogun State and by implication in Nigeria. The study recommends among others that TVET programmes should be given adequate priority by all stakeholders and necessary resources needed to facilitate women active involvement in technical and vocational activities should be provided by government and industries.
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