Abstract

— This research focused on “men and women in community development in Ihioma community, in Orlu local government area State. The broad objective of this study is to investigate men and women effects in community development in Ihioma. Two hypothesis were formulated in the course of this study relevant literature were reviewed, two theories, were also reviewed, the theories are modernization theory of social change and the cultural feminist theory. The researcher adopted the cultural feminist theory in the explication in Ihioma, the researcher adopted the survey research design, the researcher also adopted a sample size of 229 respondents the purposive sampling method was also adopted by the researcher. The research gathered data for this research through the techniques. Data were analyzed using the chisquare statistical tool. The hypothesis which states that there is no significant relationship between gender disparity and men and women involvement in community development was also rejected as the table value of 7.815 was greater than the x2 value of 6.8. The study found out that gender disparity in Ihioma has not led to a decline in community development. The study also found out that the level of education among men and women in Ihioma has not affected the process of development in the area.

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