| dc.description.abstract | The study is aims at having a gender analysis of the people trained and the participation
of young women in the leadership-training course, which is a programme of the Youth
Agenda. The course is targeted to the youth at their various sectors ofleadership
including student leaders, trade union leaders, young political leaders, community and
civil society leaders, the young women leaders and the young professionals.
It takes into cognizance the nature of the Kenyan Political setup, which is patriarchal in
nature and argues with the theory that is difficult for the women to penetrate the
leadership echelons even when given a chance.
The methodology used to collect the data is secondary as the records of the young men
and women who are trained are contained in a database at the Youth Agenda offices and
the researcher used gender analysis to come up with the figures.
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Some of the findings are that the women participants are not as many as the men and that
they still shy away from attending the more "serious" leadership trainings like political
and trade unions and tend to cluster in the community, professional and young women
sectors. | en |
