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Women In Nigeria

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Social structures in Nigeria: Working conditions of women in Nigeria

The migration and human trafficking of women are both connected to the possibility of working and earning enough money. Victims of human trafficking are lured by false promises of work and indentured workers agree to work in prostitution in order to have a job which could provide them enough financial resources for their own businesses, families, and etc. Both groups thus make a decision to indebt themselves to a sponsor on the basis of a profitable work in Europe. In order to see, why they migrate for work, first we look at the labor market conditions of women in Nigeria.

A work in the formal sector

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According to the United Nations Statistics Division 2016, Nigeria has a population of about 178 517 000, almost 50 % of are women (UN 2016). The Federal Office of Statistics (2006) reports that 70% of this women population, reside and work in the rural areas, where women largely live in poverty, lacking access to basic education, decent nutrition, adequate health and social services (Fapohunada 2012:36). CIA data from 2015 shows that more than 50% of all women in Nigeria do not know how to read and write (CIA 2015).

However, poverty itself is not the only reason why more than half of the women are illiterate. Many of parents in the country still prefer to send their sons to schools, because they do not consider education for women valuable. Women are educated at home to be good wives for their future husbands and a formal education thus seems to be unnecessary for them (Unicef …show more content…

The formal sector’s main features include difficult entry, large-scale operation, regulated market and possession of formal education (Fapohunada, 2012:40).

A majority of women who work in the sex street industry in Denmark have a limited education (Plambech 2012) and therefore do not have a possibility to entry to the formal sector. Also according to Carling 2006 one of the push factors to human trafficking is that Young Nigerian women often have a low level of education and even less possibilities than man in the local labour market (Carling 2006:24).

Isabel, one of my respondents said: I had to help on the farm which we had and therefore my parents did not send me to a school. But a life is tough when you are not educated. There is no job for you here in Europe and no job in Nigeria. I will do everything so that my children can go to the school. This is the only way, how they can become free people. They would be able to find a job and have a normal life (Isabel, Copenhagen,

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