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Legislative drafting as an effective tool of change in the deeply entrenched Patriachy of Nigerian Legislation

Description.

 Effectiveness of Legislation and the importance of Gender Neutral Legislation in a Patriachal system

Hypothesis on legislative drafting

On the 15^th of March 2015, the Nigerian Senate voted down the Gender and Equal Opportunities Bill, 2016(S.B116) This Bill was to bring Nigerian’s women’s rights parallel to that of Nigerian men. And in short to bring women’s right in line with the rest of the world. It was to introduce Gender Neutral legislation in the Nigerian Constitution to ratify international treaties. To which Nigeria is a party such as the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against women (CEDAW)(1985)3. And also the African Charter of the Rights of Women in Africa in 2004. The hypothesis of this essay is to prove that Gender-Neutral legislative drafting will provide. An effective tool to end discrimination against women in Nigerian Legislation.

Methodology

To further buttress my hypothesis, I will briefly discuss the bill and its key provisions will look at the socio cultural and religious and legal relationship between men and women in Nigeria, Women’s legal status within society. Legislative drafting in Nigeria before the year 2000, Gender- Neutral drafting for as a tool for accuracy and precision, and Reform by the Judiciary, how Gender-Neutral drafting will provide a gently and yet effective change to the Legislation relating to Nigerian women. I will be relying on not only primary and secondary sources of law to arrive at my conclusions. But the expert analysis by Journalists, Feminists and socio-cultural critique and Political literature, for and against the impact of Gender-neutral drafting will have on Sex Discriminatory laws in Nigeria.

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