KENYA

Studying gender aspects of unpaid family market work

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In contrast to the other countries in the CWW project, Kenya's time use data focuses on time spent in market work by unpaid family workers. This presents the opportunity to explore the gender dimension of unpaid market-based workers.  These are persons who work for a household-owned farm or business that benefits the household by providing food or income, but the workers themselves do not receive a wage.

The Kenyan research has shown that women play a large part in supplying labor to these enterprises.

 
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Counting unpaid work in Kenya: Gender and age profiles of hours worked and imputed wage incomes
Counting unpaid work in Kenya: Gender and age profiles of hours worked and imputed wage incomes

The CWW Kenya research team has published “Counting unpaid work in Kenya: Gender and age profiles of hours worked and imputed wage incomes.” in the Journal of the Economics of Ageing.

NTA XI Conference
NTA XI Conference

A number of country teams presented the research they have been conducting as part of the Counting Women's Work project at the 11th Global Meeting of

Kenya

Germano Mwabu

Professor of economics

university of nairobi

gmwabu@gmail.com

 

Moses Muriithi

lecturer, school of economics

university of nairobi

mkmuriithi@uonbi.ac.ke

 

Reuben G. Mutegi

Lecturer, Department of Education, Administration and Planning

university of nairobi

rmutegi@uonbi.ac.ke