al status more or less subordinates women," says Eze Onyekpere, Executive Director of Shelter Rights Initiative (Oduaran & Okukpon, 1997).It is quite contradictory that women are required to cultivate their husbands land and grow the family food including the food for the husband, for which they receive nothing in return. The husband can sell in the market what a women grows to buy for himself whatever he wants. She can be divorced at any time which means thrown out of her home to which she has no right; nor does she have any right to her children (Oduaran & Okukpon, 1997).Helen Nwaneri (1998) states that "Gender means the distinction between sexes (male and female), it refers to the system of roles and relationships between women and men that are dominated not by biology but by the society. Gender stereotypes are roles or a pattern of behavior placed on a particular sex by the society, mostly beliefs, illogical ideas and false phrases" (p. 40). According to Helen Nwaneri, some of the common stereotypes are: the belief that men are the bread winners even though it is known to be untrue. It is believed that women are the weaker sex, yet women are still overburdened with work. Women are compelled to do all domestic work and chidcare which has made it difficult for most women to work in offices, get an education, to vote and be voted for; even their freedom of movement is restricted. Women who go to work outside their homes and get an education are still expected to carry out all domestic chores. It is believed that men are stronger physically, emotionally, spiritually . . . It is believed that Emotions and not reasoning rules the complex female mind and because of this hypothesis men are the decision and policy makers in the society. There is special treatment for a male child in the family: this gives girls lack of confidence and an inferiority complex. It is believed that men are more intelligent than women: that is why school...