Gender Perspectives in Entrepreneurial Development in Urban and Regional Planning Discipline in Nigeria Proceedings of the International Conference of the Faculty of Environmental Studies (FESIC, 2018). Building Capacity for Self-Reliance: Entrepreneurship and Environmental Development, held at Barth Ebong Lecture Theatre, University of Uyo, Uyo. 11 – 14
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Entrepreneurship has garnered interest and popularity in a wide array of academic disciplines in recent times. Despite efforts at improving professional skills in Urban and Town planning discipline, quite a number of resultant graduates and consultants have been unemployed. The study utilized desk literature review, secondary information and simple percentage analysis to assess the Gender based Distribution of Registered Town Planners, Gender based Distribution of Town Planning Consulting firms, Gender based distribution of Number of jobs executed by male and Female Town Planners and factors affecting women’s involvement in entrepreneurial development in Nigeria. The paper revealed that there are gender disparities in the number of female town planners inducted into practice, which influence the general performance women planners in competing for planning jobs. More so, the number of female-headed town planning consulting firms, are much fewer than those headed by their male counterparts. About one-fifth of all town planners inducted over a twenty-five ycar period have been females. From this number, only 15(3.89%) have females as the principal town planning consultant while 371 (96.11%) are owned and run by male town planners. Factors affecting low or non-performance of women at entrepreneurial development in town planning practice include relatively low number of women in the profession, poor access to credits, low bargaining power, as well as poor institutional and policy frameworks for improved engagement of more women in entrepreneurial activities in town planning. The paper recommends gender mainstreaming as a panacea for increased involvement of women in town planning practice.
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