EKPOMA REVIEW

The 21st century has been bombarded with different types of ideologies, from relativism to secularism and one of the most pressing of them today is the wave of feminism, although feminist ideology is not alien to humanity, or to the Nigerian society particularly through neocolonialism and the advancement of social media, while Africans are intertwined with their cultural practices and traditions, which assigns to every individual their roles in the society, feminism tends to reshape their pattern of thought and history speci?cally in a male-dominated world, from politics to business and even religion. Hence, Plato postulates his idea of women from the background of an Athenian civilization which relegates the signi?cance of women in the polis, as an Athenian, he argues alongside the trend of the city, by showing the difference in the nature, role and pro?ciency of women in the development of the society on the one hand, while on the other hand, he argues against the waves of trend on gender by endorsing a complementary society between men and women. Therefore, this paper seeks to promote the role of women in the Nigerian society, in the limelight of Plato's advocacy for gender equality and women rights, it seeks to maintain that women have a role in the growth and development of the nation and these roles must be nurtured and not subjugated, and these tasks go hand in hand with their role in the formation of the family, aimed towards creating a peaceful family and an ordered society.

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