GENDER
PARTICIPATION IN TECHNICAL TRAINING INSTITUTIONS: AN ASSESSMENT OF THE KENYAN
CASE
Moses Waithanji Ngware
Abstract:
The
paper focuses on skill training opportunities for females in Technical Education
Programmes (TEP) in Kenya. In Africa, labour markets have become so competitive
that females need to be assisted to enter such markets. Expanding skill-training
opportunities for females in training institutions could meet this demand.
Informal interviews and questionnaires were used to collect data that were
analysed within the framework of human capital theory. Sex balance was lacking
in TEP and most institutions were internally inefficient, with endogenous
factors forcing trainees out of the training programmes.