Download or read book Gender and Economic Growth in Kenya written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the legal, administrative, and regulatory barriers that are preventing women in Kenya from contributing fully to the Kenyan economy. Building on the 2004 FIAS Improving the Commercial Legal Framework and Removing Administrative and Regulatory Barriers to Investment report, this study looks at the bureaucratic barriers facing women in Kenya through a gender lens.
Download or read book Gender and Employment in Uganda written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gender and Economic Growth in Uganda written by Amanda Ellis and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men and women both play significant, though different, economic roles in Uganda (both contribute around 50% of GDP and women are 39% of business owners). Gender inequality in access to and control of productive assets and resources acts as a brake to women's economic participation and limits economic growth. Labor and time constraints differentially affect women's and men's capacity to engage in business activity, with significant consequences for agricultural productivity in the context of strategic exports. It is therefore important for Uganda to unleash the full productive potential of fema.
Download or read book Gender and Employment in Uganda written by Uganda. Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gender and Employment in Uganda written by Fredrick Ombwori and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gender Poverty and Nonfarm Employment in Ghana and Uganda written by Constance Newman and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For women in Ghana and Uganda, nonfarm activities play an important role in yielding the lowest - and the most rapidly declining - rural poverty rates. In both countries rural poverty declined fastest for female heads of household engaged in nonfarm work (which tended to be a secondary activity). But patterns vary between the two countires.
Download or read book Gender Issues in Uganda written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gender Inequality in Employment written by Winnie Awino and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication addresses the problem of gender inequality in employment; through a conceptual history of equality for all following the promulgation of a new Constitution. It analyzes numerous literature to identify how equal opportunities have been understood and how these have been translated or omitted for women in formal employment in Uganda. Equal Opportunity has been institutionalized in Ugandan legislation, government policy documents and even in regulations of private players most especially following the 1995 Constitution. Despite these efforts and advances to secure equality for women in employment, equal employment opportunities for women is a dream still being fought to be realised. Also, despite the important role women play and contribute to the labour force in Uganda, there are generally marked imbalances in their integration in the economy and yet they constitute a majority of the population. Equal opportunity functions by invoking the metaphor of everyone being permitted to compete in a race... and therefore, all should have equal competing ground and opportunity.
Download or read book Gender Inequality in Uganda written by Uganda. Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Factors Influencing Women s Participation in Economic Activities in Uganda written by Prossie Bbaale Mukasa and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academic Paper from the year 2010 in the subject Gender Studies, grade: B, , language: English, abstract: The main objectives of the study were to find out factors influencing women’s participation in economic activities in Uganda. Catering for both the positive and the negative factors. The positive factors such as age, education level of the women, accessibility to land, access to capital, and access to health facilities of women encouraged women to participate in economic activities. The negative factors such as illiteracy, lack of capital, men refusing their wives to work hindered women from participating in economic activities. However, despite government’s efforts to promote women emancipation and gender equality, women are still lagging behind in the participation of economic activities. It was found out that age, education, and access to land positively influenced the participation of women in economic activities. This was mainly because women who were mature in age had more responsibilities as compared to those who were young in age. Secondly, women who were educated had more knowledge and skills to enable them participate in economic activities as compared to the uneducated. Lastly, access to land increased productivity and was used as collateral to acquire credit. However, despite access to capital being one of the major factors, it negatively influenced women’s participation in economic activities since women feared these loans because of high interest rates and mis-use by their husbands. Therefore, Government should emphasize more facilitation of women’s education to enable them acquire the necessary skills that would help them participate fully in economic activities and also enable them empower the girl child who has dropped out of school to further her education.
Download or read book Gender Poverty and Nonfarm Employment in Ghana and Uganda written by Constance Newman and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For women in Ghana and Uganda, nonfarm activities play an important role in yielding the lowest - and the most rapidly declining - rural poverty rates. In both countries rural poverty declined fastest for female heads of household engaged in nonfarm work (which tended to be a secondary activity). But patterns vary between the two countries.Newman and Canagarajah provide evidence that women's nonfarm activities help reduce poverty in two economically and culturally different countries, Ghana and Uganda.In both countries rural poverty rates were lowest - and fell most rapidly - for female heads of household engaged in nonfarm activities. Participation in nonfarm activities increased more rapidly for women, especially married women and female heads of household, than for men. Women were more likely than men to combine agriculture and nonfarm activities. In Ghana it was nonfarm activities (for which income data are available) that provided the highest average incomes and the highest shares of income.Bivariate probit analysis of participation shows that in Uganda female heads of household and in Ghana women in general are significantly more likely than men to participate in nonfarm activities and less likely to participate in agriculture.This paper - a joint product of Rural Development, Development Research Group, and the Social Protection Team, Human Development Network - is part of a larger effort in the Bank to discuss gender, employment, and poverty linkages. The authors may be contacted at [email protected] or [email protected].
Download or read book Gender Audit of Key Laws Affecting Women in Uganda written by Uganda Women's Network and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gender Disparities in Africa s Labor Market written by Jorge Saba Arbache and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2010-08-05 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women's earnings are a fraction of male's earnings in several African countries. It is tempting to conclude that this wage gap is a sign of discrimination against women in the labor market. Yet this book uses new datasets to show that the gap is not simply the result of discrimination in the labor markets, but rather the result of multiple factors, including access to education and credit, cultural values and household duties, and, above all, labor market conditions. It shows that gender disparities grow when economies are not functioning well and labor markets are tiny. More than the effect of discrimination, it seems that job rationing causes those with better human capital and those with more power in the household usually the men to take the few jobs that are available. It is hardly surprising, then, that in a region where only a fraction of the labor force finds jobs in the formal sector, gender disparities in earnings are so high. The book further documents that firm-level and sector characteristics are additional powerful factors in explaining the gender disparities in the labor market. As the causes are not simple, neither are the solutions; multifaceted strategies are needed. By providing environments that support economic growth and, more importantly, job creation, as well as by promoting equal access for women to education and rethinking the attitudes that limit what women may achieve, governments in the region will substantially improve the well-being of all their peoples. 'Gender Disparities in Africa's Labor Market' helps to fill the knowledge gap and identify the links between gender disparities and poverty reduction. The work was implemented in collaboration with a range of poverty and labor market studies to maximize its usefulness for policy dialogue in specific countries. This book will be of interest to policy makers, students, academics, gender experts, and all those interested in gender issues and development.
Download or read book Changing Gender Roles in the Political and Economic Development of Uganda written by Patience Nakijjoba Tumwine and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Employment of Women in Uganda written by Walter Elkan and published by . This book was released on 195? with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Towards Economic Empowerment of Women Making Unpaid Domestic and Care Work Count Policy Implications for Uganda written by Betty Ikanza and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Female Education Labour Force Participation and Fertility written by Edward Bbaale and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
