Auto mechanics training program edging Kenyan women into "male" occupations
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Charles Sikulu, public relations officer for the University of Nairobi, Kenya's largest public university, says more women have been enrolling at the diploma, bachelor's and master's levels in its traditionally male-dominated colleges in recent years.
He says that 223 women enrolled in the College of Architecture and Engineering for the 2010-2011 school year, compared with 201 women the previous school year. The College of Biological and Physical Sciences enrolled 312 women this year, compared with 267 last year. Male enrollment is still about triple that of the women in these programs, but Sikulu says the university plans to continue to reduce this gender disparity through its admissions process.
Women's political participation is also rising. In the most recent 2007 election, 269 women ran for parliamentary seats, according to various reports. That's a strong gain from 44 in 2002.
Women are now 10 percent of parliament, according to a study by the Kenya chapter of the International Federation of Women Lawyers. This still pales in comparison to Kenya's neighbors, as women make up more than half of Rwanda's parliament. Recently, though, a female member of parliament, Martha Karua, launched her presidential bid for the 2012 general elections.
Women are entering street-level forms of male employment as well, such as becoming shoe shiners and bus touts in charge of collecting passengers' fares.
http://www.womensenews.org/story/equal-payfair-wage/110530/kenyan-women-chip-awa...
He says that 223 women enrolled in the College of Architecture and Engineering for the 2010-2011 school year, compared with 201 women the previous school year. The College of Biological and Physical Sciences enrolled 312 women this year, compared with 267 last year. Male enrollment is still about triple that of the women in these programs, but Sikulu says the university plans to continue to reduce this gender disparity through its admissions process.
Women's political participation is also rising. In the most recent 2007 election, 269 women ran for parliamentary seats, according to various reports. That's a strong gain from 44 in 2002.
Women are now 10 percent of parliament, according to a study by the Kenya chapter of the International Federation of Women Lawyers. This still pales in comparison to Kenya's neighbors, as women make up more than half of Rwanda's parliament. Recently, though, a female member of parliament, Martha Karua, launched her presidential bid for the 2012 general elections.
Women are entering street-level forms of male employment as well, such as becoming shoe shiners and bus touts in charge of collecting passengers' fares.
http://www.womensenews.org/story/equal-payfair-wage/110530/kenyan-women-chip-awa...
