TRENDS IN GENDER DISPARITY
Gender disparity is a social creation orchestrated by the patriarchal system in Nigeria, It is an anti-social behaviour which has over the years subjected the female folk into a seeming intractable poverty and lack as a result of being submissive to the men. The paper is a theoretical one which chronicled gender disparity in Nigeria into three phases; pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial and x-rayed gender disparity and economic activities of women in each phases and its implication on female financial crime. The paper adopted power-control theory by John Hagans as its theoretical base. It pinned down today’s upsurge in female financial crime to the harsh economic realities in Nigeria which forced the husbands to allow their wives to engage in economic activities which ultimately exposed them to crimes, particularly financial crimes for which the spate has assumed an alarming dimension because the women were not armed with the desired tools like education and other crucial skill to engage in a competitive capitalist economy. The paper recommended that government of Nigeria should design programmes and policies aimed at total emancipation of women from poverty and lack. Government should expeditiously formulate laws aimed at expunging all forms of gender disparity in Nigeria.