Gender based discrimination and socio-economic duties in Kenya a case study of Bungoma District
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2012-06
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Kampala International University, College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Abstract
The study was about gender based discrimination and socio-economic duties in
Kenya a case study of Bungoma district The objective of the study was to establish
efforts that have been put together to overcome such discriminations and the significant
steps women victims have initiated to address discriminations in all spheres. The study
used both qualitative and quantitative research design and the questionnaires being
asked revolved around the causes ( factors) leading to wider gap indiscrimination of
women, the effects and the safeguarding quality methods that has been instilled
The research revealed that the main factors leading to gender discriminations was
mainly due to control and access to research, exploitation of women by men,
devaluation of women integrity and differential in the rationale , which summed up to
gender violence in Bungoma District ( Kenya). The cultural effects on judicial laws and
the structural hierarchy challenges, threatened the status quo of women, the situational
analysis reflected the entrenchment of human rights. The study therefore
recommended that the victims should learn from the past culture of being used as
sexual objects and focus towards the culture that is free from oppressions. The victims
should establish a link between the past, present and the future as they voice their
expectations which should be more powerful than the circumstance that surrounds
that they should package the grievances in executive summary as they work for the
best fit alternative for their status quo.For the government, there was need to put
checks and balances that indicates, reduction of hostilities in the communities through
cascade principles that determines the transformation model of a major shift from the
old cultural comfort zones to the inner operational or working zones that gives
deliverances to its people. The government of Kenya should use the life cycle advisers
to identify the risks and gaps through their mission, vision and value ethics.For the
NGOs, should formulate standards that are universal and ratify the fundamental of
human rights. They should interlink the holistic perspectives that underscore gender
issue. The government of Kenya should realize that the hierarchical basic needs of
gender goes beyond food, water and shelter; the pyramid includes; safety, security,
identity, culture destructive justice and participation in the legal framework There was
need therefore to reduce frustrating goals, reconstruction of social environments,
ideologies anti-radicals and private gains in order to increase the moral values of gender
group through control safety measures. No country or part of the world is immune to
the costs of violence, even though investing resources in it might cost much, especially
in the prevention stage , the enormous dividends , both to the society and the Nation is
very high in terms of turn-up ratios.
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A Thesis Presented to the College of Higher Degrees and Research Kampala International University Kampala Uganda In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Conflict Resolution and Peace Building
Keywords
Gender based discrimination, Socio-economic, Bungoma District