Literacy Education as a Tool for Empowering Women In Asa Local Government Area Kwara State, Nigeria

The paper examined the issue of literacy as a tool for empowering womenin Asa Local Government area of Kwara State. The paper was premised onthe fact that when women are literate, they will be more active in theirvarious communities. Their voices will be heard as opposed to their facesbeing seen and this will instill in them the confidence to make progress intheir daily living. The study made use of descriptive survey design, with 211non-literates women randomly selected as sample within the localgovernment. A 10 item questionnaire was designed to elicit responses onliteracy education and empowerment. The data collected were subjected todescriptive and inferential statistical test at 0.05 level of significance. Thestudy discovered that literacy is a tool for fighting poverty, hunger diseases,and ignorance and when all these are fought, an average woman becomesempowered to participate actively in issues of development in her homeand community. The study, therefore, recommended that women should beencouraged to enroll for literacy education programme while, governmentsat all levels should make efforts to fund literacy programme.