Authors : Aina Sola, Oyetakin Akinrotimi Iyiomo and Oshun Grace Okaima
Abstract: This study was carried out to examine the challenges of economic depression on the education of male and female undergraduates in Nigeria. As a descriptive research design, it made use of some indicators for measuring the state of the Nigerian economy such as exchange rate, inflation rate, GDP per capital growth rate, foreign direct investment and consumer price index. Four public universities were selected through simple random sampling for the study. The participants were made up of 225 male and 225 female undergraduates, while reliability coefficient of the validated instrument was found to be 0.75. Data were analyzed through descriptive and inferential statistics tools. The findings revealed that there was no significant difference between the effects of economic hardship on male and female undergraduates in Nigeria (t-cal 0.249 < t-value = 0.819; df = 6, p>05). The implication of this study proved that gender discrimination in the country was not tied to economic hardship, but ecosystemic thinking of the society, which is presently decreasing with reference to tertiary institutions enrolment.
Aina Sola, Oyetakin Akinrotimi Iyiomo and Oshun Grace Okaima, 2009. Impact of Economic Depression on the Education of Male and Female Undergraduates in Nigeria. The Social Sciences, 4: 610-613.