The research work titled, “Co-operatives an Aid to Women Empowerment in Abia State”. (A case study of Bende LGA) was carried out by the researcher.
Chapter one, deals with the introduction and the background of the study, statement of the problems, objectives of the study, research question, significance of the study, scope and limitation of the study are in the Chapter one.
Chapter two deals with the review of past related literature with the following sub-headings were discussed, origin of co-operative society in Bende LGA, types of co-operatives in Bende, Economic benefits of joining co-operative, factors militating against effective participation of women in co-operative societies.
Chapter three deals with the research design and methodology, area of study, procedure for data collection, data analysis.
Chapter four deals with data presentation, Analysis and interpretation of data.
Chapter five deals with findings, recommendation and conclusion.
1.1 Introduction
In this section, Co-Operative Aid to Women Empowerment is discussed, with relevant and recent citations. As a prelude to other parts of this study, this chapter will discuss the background upon which this study was initiated, the statement of problems that led to this study, the aim and objectives of the study. Others are significance of the study, scope of work, research hypothesis and questions, limitation of the study and definition of terms.