In Kenya, policymakers have deliberately addressed physical and economic barriers to girls' access to education, with impressive results, but have neglected cultural barriers. Kenyan policy has also largely ignored the findings of the feminist literature, focusing exclusively on achieving ...
Related to Gender issues:Gender discrimination gender In many other languages, especially the Romance languages (such as French, Spanish, and Italian), a large number of nouns are coded as being either feminine or masculine. This used to be the case in Old English as well, but in modern Eng...
The paper focuses on the 2009 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) and Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) results because it is the most immediate examination year. Where possible, other years have been used for com- parison purposes. This paper argues th...
6. Learning to improve policy for pastoralists in Kenya This chapter explores ways through which education policy can be changed so as to enable Kenya to achieve the goal of "Education for All". This examination... I Leggett 被引量: 6发表: 2005年 Extracting Lessons on Gender in the Oil ...
the practice of discriminating against women in job opportunities, salary levels and increases, and in other matters now generally considered to be equally the right of women. —sexist,n., adj. See also:Women the practice of discriminating against women in the offering of job opportunities, incre...
class="MsoNormalA worrying paradox is that gender issues are debated in boardrooms, but not actualised. Kenya yet to realise gender parity dream Dutch Ambassador Hester Somsen, the keynote speaker, highlighted the need for build capacity in gender issues, as well as the centrality of gender ...
With education expansion, father-child associations in educational status become weaker and mother-child associations become stronger. With the prevalence of hypogamous parents (mother more educated), mother-child associations are stronger, but father-child associations are weaker. With the prevalence of...
July 30, 2020 GenderAnd EducationIssues What is the fate of teenage mothers in their quest to access education in Kenya? By Catherine Asego “I had my first child when I was 13 and dropped out of school. Since I had to fend for my baby, I decided to wash clothes for a living and...
Kenya A 2010 study of training institutions using a stratified random sample used focus group and sex-disaggregated administrative data to explore gender-related barriers in health pre-service education [12]. Analysis of the administrative data found distinct differences in the concentrations of female ...
Gender & EducationMilligan, Lizzi. 2014. "`They Are Not Serious Like the Boys': Gender Norms and Contradictions for Girls in Rural Kenya." Gender and Education 26 (5): 465-476.Milligan, L. (2014). `They are not serious like the boys': gender norms and contradictions for girls in ...