To what extent is it true that in West Africa there has been very limited progress in reducing gender inequality in most social, economic and political contexts.

Gender means examining the socio-cultural factors involved in constructions of female and male and their relationship with one another. It is therefore a comparative concept. According to Davison (1997), each gender (male or female)  has attached to it a set of ever-changing, socially defined characters that includes sexual orientation, procreative values and behaviours, and the social scripts through which individuals and groups interact and provide for their economic and social survival. Definitions of Gender and Gender relations are subsequently cultural constructions within a specific social context (Moore, 1988) and, as such, vary over time and space. They can only be investigated and not assumed….(short extract)