WOMEN EMPOWERMENT THROUGH COOPERATIVE SOCIETIES IN KADUNA STATE

ABSTRACT Women empowerment/development has received the attention of many expert, groups, entity and researchers as well as the government. This is because it constitutes serious bottlenecks to the socio-economic development of the country as well as the communities. It is in the light of this, the researcher, have decided to examine how the empowerment of rural women through cooperative society in Kaduna south local government area of Kaduna state as the case study. During the course of the research the researcher unveils the following problems confronting rural women development which include the followings; persistence of agriculture stagnation, poverty and disease. Unemployment, poor housing, under-employment and poor infrastructure facilities. Most of our rural areas also suffered from inadequacy of social services, high birthrate and death rate, low life experience, malnutrition and ignorance. The research methodology employed in this were descriptive design. The choice of this design was chosen due to the fact that it enhances easy data collection and gives a well explanative and descriptive result that can be easily understood by everyone. On the basis of the analysis of data collected during the interview, the researchers present the following finding as summary of the research work, it was gathered that the presence of cooperative society in any country adds positive development to dwellers livelihood. Among the recommendations by the researcher are; there should be a provision of fund to the rural women by the government, philanthropic organization and many individuals. Organization of cooperative societies should organize a fund raising ceremony in order to raise fund.