Socio-economic Factors Influencing Women’s Empowerment in Mvita Constituency, Mombasa County, Kenya

Abstract

Empowerment of women centers around individual and aggregate parts of intensity and it is important to contemplate ladies' strengthening from the point of view of ladies' financial attributes, as ladies are separated by heterogeneous classifications dependent on class, life cycle, or ethnicity. The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of socio-economic influence on women empowerment in Mvita Constituency, Mombasa County, Kenya. This study was carried out using a descriptive survey research design. The study targeted 15 women groups, 15 women group leaders and 5 women leaders in Mvita Constituency. Purposive sampling was adopted and a census of 125 respondents formed the sample size. Questionnaires were used to collect data from the field in which quantitative data was analysed using descriptive analysis and qualitative data was analysed thematically. The study established that social and economic factors influences women empowerment to a very great extent. The study concludes that social factors and economic factors positively affect the level of empowerment of women in Mvita constituency. The study recommends that the government should use all machineries to increase the awareness of women empowerment, engage with civil society and support local ownership to ensure the legitimacy and sustainability of measures targeting women’s access to justice and training, they should also prepare educational programmes for women's empowerment needs to integrate the gender issues in work oriented activities.