wifeism
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- (Nigeria, politics) A patriarchal societal tendency whereby women can only achieve things as the wives of men of rank.
- 1999, Amrita Basu, C. Elizabeth McGrory, Women's Movements in Global Perspective, page 213:
- In this chapter I examine the emergence of wifeism and the bureaucratization of women's concerns in Nigeria through state involvement, especially since the early 1980s.
- 1999, Matthew Hassan Kukah, Democracy and Civil Society in Nigeria, page 168:
- But this is not unconnected with the fact that the electoral system in Nigeria is still skewed in favour of wifeism.