Growing Up in Kenya: Rural Schooling and Girls (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780820452722)

Growing Up in Kenya: Rural Schooling and Girls reveals the clash between the traditional values and roles of women and the school culture and expectations. Traditionally, women were brought up to value the roles of wife, mother, and cultivator. This book shows the struggle rural girls experience as they try to fit into these traditional roles while meeting the expectations of the school curriculum. Although education is central to a woman's status, because it affects every other aspect of her life, studies indicate that parents have lower occupational aspirations for their daughters than for their sons. This is true for higher socio-economic groups as well as when the daughters' academic performance is superior to that of the sons'.

Author: Janice A. Jipson,Ann Mungai
ISBN-10: 0820452726
ISBN-13: 9780820452722
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2002
Pages: 114
Format: Paperback