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Title:Gender Issues
Author:Mitullah, W.V.
Book title:Kenya Coast Handbook: Culture, resources and development in the East African littoral
Editors:Hoorweg, J.
Foeken, D.
Obudho, R.A.
Year:2000
Pages:301-306
City of publisher:Hamburg
Publisher:Lit Verlag
Geographic term:Kenya
Discipline:Sociology
Subject:Gender
Abstract:Comparison of gender performance in Kenya's coastal region reveals high social, economic and political disparities. The disparities have been attributed to historical background as well as cultural and religious factors. After a review of the Kenyan context, the situation in Coast Province is discussed in more detail, particularly the importance of Arabic-Islamic values. This is followed by an examination of gender and development in the areas of social, economic and political life. The status of women in Coast Province is generally low. Existing constraints to women's performance that deserve concern are illiteracy, low levels of education, lack of meaningful economic activities, and historical and cultural beliefs and practices. The most difficult areas to address concern existing cultural practices and the types of economic activities women are involved in. (Source: Author Abstract).
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