Akinsanya, A. O.; Oludeyi, O. S. (2017)

The scholarship addressing the empowerment concerns of women in wage la-bour has identified a number of areas of vulnerability. Prominent among these is that female workers have insufficient knowledge of their empowerment through distance education, yet the extent of this knowledge has not previously been quantified. In a sample of 336 female employees in selected organisations in Ado-Odo Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State, Nigeria, this study adopts descriptive survey research to explore areas of strengths and deficit in female workers’ knowledge of distance learning and empowerment. The findings demonstrated that despite the recent awareness of education being a tool for personal development and empowerment, female workers know relatively little about distance learning. The conclusions underscore the need for education strategies that inform women workers about the purposes, processes, benefits and the place of distance learning in their personal and professional develop-ment.