4. Expanding Employment Opportunities Military Enlistment of Women To boost Women’s employment in the Military, a landmark achievement was made on 14 February 2010 when Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) commenced enlistment of female regular combatant officers with 20 females enrolled as pioneers. By 2013, the number increased to about 50 (Daily Trust, 2/2/2013). In recent years, women have also been deployed on peace keeping missions within and outside Nigeria. Advancing Women in Judiciary With recent developments in the Nigerian Judiciary, the acceptance of women’s leadership in strategic positions is anticipated to have positive ripple effects in other sectors. In 2012 a woman, Honourable Aloma Mouktar emerged as the first female Chief Justice and head of the Nigerian Judiciary and another female Judge —Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa emerged President of the Court of Appeal in 2014. So far about five States have appointed women as their Chief Judge and/or Attorney General. Such States are: Lagos, Ogun (CJ and AG are women), Oyo (the state also has female Customary Court Judge). Women in the Private Sector There has been an increase in the number of women in the private sector. Women run about 20 per cent of enterprises in the formal sector (World Bank, 2009:92) and they make up 37 per cent of the total work force in the garment industry. The rate of female entrepreneurship in the micro sector is increasing as a result of increased skill acquisition and micro-loans to women. A report on the “2010 Access to Financial Services in Nigeria” indicates that majority of the 43 per cent of women cited as economically inactive make their living through private businesses.  Ongoing Legislative Initiatives of the Ministry of Labour and Productivity 2015-16:  Amendment of the Labour Standards Act. i. Amendment of Sec 2 to include children that are self employed Artisans under Convention 138. ii. Children that are used or engaged in vigorous manual labour of engaged in combating crimes, wars etc should be abolished.  Re-enactment of ‘Factories Act’ to read “Occupational Safety and Health Act”.  Amendment of the NSITF Act to fall in line with the Employees compensation Act. 70