abstract: 'Realizing high economic growth and generating gainful employment present

  major challenges for Kenya. This paper analyzes the gendered employment

  outcomes of various investment options in Kenya using Social Accounting

  Matrix multiplier analysis. Results reveal that Kenya''s agriculture

  sector accounts for the highest increase in employee compensation

  (mainly benefiting skilled labor and disproportionately benefiting men),

  while its manufacturing sector accounts for the largest share of job

  creation. Although women stand to benefit more from employment creation,

  most of these new jobs are informal with low wages. Kenya''s gender

  disparities are a reflection of existing disparities in its labor market

  and socioeconomic structure. Therefore, policies aimed at addressing the

  constraints that limit women''s effective participation in the Kenyan

  labor market, including increasing productivity and raising women''s

  skills, are important for allowing men and women to benefit equally from

  employment and growth-promoting opportunities.'
affiliation: 'Wanjala, BM (Corresponding Author), Kenya Inst Publ Policy Res \& Anal,
  Macroecon Div, POB 56445, Nairobi 00200, Kenya.

  Wanjala, Bernadette Mukhwana, Kenya Inst Publ Policy Res \& Anal, Macroecon Div,
  Nairobi 00200, Kenya.

  Were, Maureen, Cent Bank Kenya, Nairobi 00200, Kenya.'
author: Wanjala, Bernadette Mukhwana and Were, Maureen
author-email: 'bwanjala@yahoo.com

  sikalimw@centralbank.go.ke'
author_list:
- family: Wanjala
  given: Bernadette Mukhwana
- family: Were
  given: Maureen
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1080/13545700902893114
eissn: 1466-4372
files: []
issn: 1354-5701
journal: FEMINIST ECONOMICS
keywords: Employment; gender analysis; social accounting
language: English
number: '3'
number-of-cited-references: '45'
orcid-numbers: Wanjala, Bernadette/0000-0002-9443-5341
pages: 227-251
papis_id: 160cd1926e66f6b318d073e5b7f00b29
ref: Wanjala2009genderdisparities
researcherid-numbers: Wanjala, Bernadette/AAV-1497-2021
times-cited: '11'
title: 'GENDER DISPARITIES AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN KENYA: A SOCIAL ACCOUNTING MATRIX
  APPROACH'
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000274745600008
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '8'
volume: '15'
web-of-science-categories: Economics; Women's Studies
year: '2009'