| | Women are burdened by heavy workloads: domestic needs and their families but having to work as casual labourers as well. They are further hampered by lack of access to income obtained from the sale of cash crops grown by the household, even though they often contribute labour to the cultivation of such crops. In these and other ways they suffer the impact of gender relations which place them firmly in a position of economic subordination. Feldman examines a set of organisations on which government policy towards women has been focused: women's groups coordinated by the Kenyan Women's Bureau as well as agricultural projects, income-generating projects, markets, handicrafts, extension and training. Her analysis suggests that while assisting some women to generate extra income, their impact is sparse, uneven and often of dubious value. |
