MINILS sets to promote gender studies

Date: 2021-07-15

Micheal Imoudu Nationak Institute for Labour Studies (MINILS) Ilorin is set to mainstream gender and women studies in its training curriculum as part of the innovations to reposition itself for better educational service delivery.

The new Director General of the institute, Comrade Issa Aremu, made this disclosure at the state Congress of the Women Committee of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in Ilorin.

Aremu who praised the NLC for promoting women participation in trade union movement observed that there was still room for further affirmative measures for women participation in the Unions.

He urged the unions to incorporate gender perspective and equality issues in the areas of union work that include collective bargaining, research, education, and information.

According to him, women as workers face specific problems at workplaces, that include unequal pay, maternity challenges, sexual harassment, double burden of domestic work and wage labour.

The director general said the Institute has restructured the training curriculum to include gender issues aimed at building capacity for women workers in spheres of working life.

Aremu said while there has been progress on women's rights at work in many workplaces in Nigeria, there are still many obstacles in the way of gender equality and women's access to better jobs.

"Job segregation and persistent myths about women's capacities are used to restrict women to the lowest paid and most precarious work. Sexual harassment and gender-based violence are endemic in industries that employ many women and present significant barriers to women entering sectors that currently employ mostly men," he said.

He charged the women committee of the NLC to make the problems of women visible with a view of addressing them. The DG said the Labour Institute is set to educate employers and trade unionists on how to overcome the old traditions and old attitudes that serve as obstacles to women at workplaces.

In his remark, the President of NLC, Comrade Ayuba Wabba, congratulated Comrade Aremu on his appointment as the first unionist to head the Labour Institute adding that henceforth all major training programmes of the labour movement would hold at the Institute in Ilorin.

NLC President was represented by Comrade Najeem Yazin Deputy President of the NLC.

The conference was declared open by Kwara State Head of service.

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