Gender And Development Action

Women in Public Life, a Newsletter Published by GADA is one of the outcomes of a series of activities that was aimed at building the capacity of Nigerian women for greater and more effective participation in the political transition process from military to civilian, which started in 1996. Like their counterparts in most parts of the world, Nigerian women have long been virtually excluded from decision making whether in the family or in the community and national life.

And since women are usually denied access to the mainstream media and women’s issues when featured at all are kept off the front pages, a special publication such as Women in Public Life is expected to enhance the advocacy efforts of those who strive to bring gender issues to the fore. ... read more

GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN SUPPORT Women in Public Life

Gender and Development Action is currently working in collaboration with the Global Fund for women on the production of our authoritative and informative newsletter on women’s political participation in Nigeria. The project which started in April 2008 has so far resulted in three issues of the publication.

Publication Editions

September-December 2008 edition

Hon. Funmilayo Tejuoso: Heroine of lagos Domestic Violence Bill

Born on march 25, 1965 to the family of Chief (Dr) and late Chief (Mrs.) Emmanuel Ademola Smith, Honourable Funmilayo Tejuoso (nee Smith), can be aptly described as a silver spoon person. That makes it all the more interesting that today she is the champion of the course of widely known grass roots people of Mushin Constituency in lagos State. All her growing life, she lived a sheltered life, with a medical Doctor father and a home maker mother who would drop her off at school and was always there to pick her up at the end of the day.

Her father was not a public figure even though he was one of the medical experts that eradicated small pox and chicken pox in Nigeria.

Currently the Deputy Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, the two-term legislator who came into politics during Abacha transition era, says it has been challenging especially when she used to be the only woman in the House. Read more...

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