The toughest challenge that confronts female graduates in Nigeria today is the unemployment scourge. Until the economy began taking a battering, female graduates, in their thousands, were always hopeful of securing jobs, both in the private and public sectors.
But with the economy so shrunk, salaried jobs hard to come by and women exposed to the ugly consequences, which include harassment in the quest for jobs. The grim situation is driving educated women to start redefining the gender status in the business option.  Men have always been known to start many more businesses than women. Women have been on the whole less optimistic, have less confidence in their entrepreneurial skills and are more concerned about failures than men. However, necessity is truly proving to be the mother of creativity, as Nigerian female graduates seek to undo the norm. In commercial areas in Lagos, Kano, Kaduna, Port Harcourt, Enugu, the Federal Capital Territory (Abuja) and many other state capitals, educated women are setting up their own shops in as diverse areas as fashion design (tailoring), hair-dressing, makeup, soap-making and even footwear manufacturing. Many of them can also now be found engaged in farming, especially fish-farming and poultry.
 

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