wifeism

alternative wifism

1. NigeriauncountablegovernmentA patriarchal societal tendency whereby women can only achieve things as the wives of men of rank.

   But this is not unconnected with the fact that the electoral system in Nigeria is still skewed in favour of wifeism.

   1999, Matthew Hassan Kukah, Democracy and Civil Society in Nigeria, page 168

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   In this chapter I examine the emergence of wifeism and the bureaucratization of women's concerns in Nigeria through state involvement, especially since the early 1980s.

   1999, Amrita Basu, C. Elizabeth McGrory, Women's Movements in Global Perspective, page 213