Thesis advisor: Can Erbil / Violence against women and subsequent gender-based violence are issues that plague the
world, harming women’s wellbeing as well as that of their families. Thirty-nine percent and
twenty-one percent of Kenyan women have experienced physical and sexual violence,
respectively, in their lifetimes. While there have been contested studies showing that
employment can both increase and decrease the risk of suffering from violence, particularly in
domestic settings, this study examines how a Kenyan woman’s experience of violence is likely
to affect her level (formal or informal) of employment in the future. The results of this study
indicate that emotional abuse, having a partner that drinks, educational attainment, living in a
rural setting, and age are significant factors in a woman’s probability of working. Conditioned on
working, experiencing controlling behaviors from a partner, educational attainment, justification
of violence, ethnicity, income rank, partner’s occupation, and age at first marriage influence a
woman’s probability of working informally. These results vary based on the type of employment
studied, but can have wide-ranging consequences for the economic development of Kenya and
empowerment of Kenyan women. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2016. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Departmental Honors. / Discipline: Economics.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BOSTON/oai:dlib.bc.edu:bc-ir_106847 |
| Date | January 2016 |
| Creators | Pinsak, Samantha |
| Publisher | Boston College |
| Source Sets | Boston College |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, thesis |
| Format | electronic, application/pdf |
| Rights | Copyright is held by the author, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise noted. |
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