IMPORTANCE OF GENDER RECONCILIATION IN IGBO SOCIETY
Gender reconciliation is a process of making men and women to agree in their arguments. This is needful since the world is becoming a global village, integrating all the societies in the world and thereby, exposing people to different ways of thinking that affect many cultures positively and negatively. Positively, it is breaking all the distance and uniting all the world while the negative aspect is loss of one’s cultural values and creation of inequality. It is against this backdrop that motivated this study, the rate of new forms of family life, different ways of thinking, behaviour, social structures, dressings and religious expressions are high. It is assumed that lack of gender equity is one of the effects of family crises and loss of Igbo cultures which are problems for posterity. The study employs analysis method to examine critically the conceptual involvements and their implications for our subject. The study discovers that women are the major promoter of every societal culture and to continue to oppress and marginalize women, will result to the loss of Igbo cultures. The study therefore, concludes that since the world is becoming global village, there is need for gender reconciliation in order to uphold Igbo cultures, identities and values.
Keywords: gender, igbo, importance, reconciliation, society