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Historically, women in Nigeria have engaged in economic activities, mostly in the informal sector. The informal sector offers flexibility in terms of job schedule, timing, and location. One of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is to ensure gender equality. Gender equality assists in ending gender discrimination, ensuring effective labour participation of women, and giving the necessary support to women to ensure they can compete with their male colleagues in the workspace. Sustainability is therefore protecting the communalistic orientation while also ensuring women’s work makes it easy to function effectively at home, at work, and in the society. To promote sustainability, other institutions in Nigeria, apart from the family, should structure the timing, schedule, and location of work to be flexible, in order to ensure responsibilities emanating from work and family are accommodated and the traditional societal structure is maintained.
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Gbajumo-Sheriff, M. (2022). Gender Equity in Nigeria: Sustainability, Diversity, and Inclusion. In: Ogunyemi, K., Atanya, O., Burgal, V. (eds) Management and Leadership for a Sustainable Africa, Volume 1. Palgrave Studies in African Leadership. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04911-8_4
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