GENDER INEQUALITY IN THE PERFORMANCE OF BRICKLAYING AND BLOCKLAYING PRACTICAL SKILLS AMONG TECHNICAL COLLEGE STUDENTS IN NIGER STATE NIGERIA

GENDER INEQUALITY IN THE PERFORMANCE OF BRICKLAYING AND BLOCKLAYING PRACTICAL SKILLS AMONG TECHNICAL COLLEGE STUDENTS IN NIGER STATE NIGERIA: In Nigeria, the trend of academic excellence of technical students at „O‟ level has shown that boys perform better than girls in building construction examination (NABTEB 2003). Building technology being one of the essential technical subjects in most of the professional courses at the university level, experience poor performance by the girls, and thus limit their opportunity to offer professional courses like building, building technology, building construction, civil engineering, structural engineering, architectural engineering and so on. The downward spiral of female enrolment is accompanied by decrease in achievement and interest. Poor performance in building which potentially contributes to lowering girls interest in the subjects reduces the women in technological carriers in Niger State today where we are currently in need of highly skilled human power for national development.