Occupational segregation in the Employment sector: a case study of Nairobi. Kenya
Abstract
Gender equality has been a contentious issue in Africa and more so in Kenya for a long
time. Women have been disadvantaged in taking up positions equal to those of men in
society due to a variety of factors including lower educational level, family
responsibilities and gender specific roles and discrimination.
Our society has constantly discriminated women in taking up specific roles traditionally
set aside for males making these particular professions gender stereotyped. Other
occupations are seen as encompassing the nature of females and thus become female
oriented. The girl child has for a long time had to leave her schooling to attend to marital
duties as expected by society and family. Parents have married off their young daughters
as a source of wealth thus finding investment into their education a waste of money.
However, with recent attention on the girl child's development in education and an
increase in the fight for gender equality, there could have arisen a change in the
occupational structure ignoring the traditionally st.~reotyped occupations for either
gender.
This work examines the possible changes in the occupational structure with regard to
traditionally stereotyped occupations. The first chapter is a general introduction giving
background information, aims and objectives of the study. The second chapter basically
examines the different theoretical approaches towards gender specific occupations and a
review of results from previous studies carried out in occupational segregation in
different regions. The third chapter describes the methodology of the study while the
fourth and fifth discuss the results of the study and makes recommendations
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Citation
Master of ArtsSponsorhip
University of NairobiPublisher
University of Nairobi Faculty of Arts, University of Nairobi,Kenya