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In recent years, there has been an explosion worldwide of interest in gender issues, especially pertaining to women’s status, position, and role both in institutions and in society at large. Academic literatures burgeoned with theories on the origins of gender inequality, gender stereotypes, and the role of culture and religion in the structuring of inequality. Perhaps more than any other discipline, religion appears to be at the center in the growing interest in women and gender studies.
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Ogungbile, D.O. (2011). Women and Leadership in Nigerian Islam: The Experience of Alhaja Sheidat Mujidat Adéoyè of Òṣogbo. In: Oyĕwùmí, O. (eds) Gender Epistemologies in Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230116276_5
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