This paper examines the relationship between gender inequality and food security, with a particular focus on women as food producers, consumers, and family food managers.

What is women’s studies? Is it a discipline? Subject? What should a women’s studies' programme connote and what obtains in practice?

It is taking discrimination against women to the womb. It is denying women the right to equality and the right to life on the grounds of gender. It is like telling them that they are not wanted. The issue of female foeticide simply does not shock or disturb anyone any longer.