Unemployment is a major challenge facing Nigerian society with over 23.2 million people who are
unemployed.
This means that one is lucky to be among the pool of the employed. However, statistics
reveal a gender disparity in the narrow pool of the employed with 32.16 million males were employed
in the year against 26 million females
2022 projections put the figures at 33.36 million for males and
27.1 million for females – a much wider gap between males and females in employment.
