Women and property in Kenya: towards equal inequality?

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Title:	Women and property in Kenya: towards equal inequality?
Author:	Kabeberi, Janet
Year:	1988
Issue:	13
Pages:	36
Language:	English
Series:	Working papers in women's law
City of publisher:	Oslo
Publisher:	University of Oslo
Geographic term:	Kenya
Subjects:	real property customary law land law women law
Abstract:	This paper deals with the economic status of women in Kenya, particularly with respect to property rights, and the legal provisions, both customary and statutory, which concern women and ownership in the country. It discusses the position of unmarried, married and divorced or widowed women in the four systems of law which are applied in the country: statutory law, Islamic law, Hindu law, and African (traditional) law. Four cases are described which illustrate the conflicts between these laws in the area of women's property rights. The cases concern the division of matrimonial property at divorce, the (lack of a) proprietary regime governing cohabitation, inheritance, and burial.