Gender Balance and Job Satisfaction
MASENO UNIVERSITY
CITY CAMPUS
SCHOOL OF PLANNING AND ARCHITECTURE
DEPARTMENT OF URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING
the IMPACT OF GENDER BALANCE ON JOB SATISFACTION AND PERFORMANCE OF EMPLOYEES on road projects: a comparative study of rural and urban projects.
SUBMITTED BY:
OTWANI JUSTUS AUFRIDUS
REG NO: PG/MA/020/2011
A research proposal submitted to the School of Graduate Studies in Partial fulfillment for the award of Master of Arts Degree in Project Planning and Management.
I declare that this project proposal is my original work and to the best of my knowledge it has not been presented to any university for any mark therefore it remains my original work.
Student name: Justus Aufridus Otwani
PG/MA/020/2011
Signature ……………………………..
Date……………………………………
Presented with the approval of:
Supervisor’s name: Jenifer Otieno
Signature……………………………….
Date…………………………………….
Abstract
In spite of multiple national and global efforts to promote gender equality and create an enabling environment for the increased participation of women in historically male dominated professions; gender imbalance particularly in non-agricultural wage employment persists. Although women represent 50.3% of the Kenyan population they only constitute 30% of the overall wage employment. This problem is more evident in the construction industry in general and the road sector in particular. Women constitute 7% of the overall wage employment in the building and construction industry. On the Nyamasaria – Kericho road project, which boasts a much higher percentage of female employees than most road projects so far undertaken in Kenya, women constitute an average of 11 % of the total work force.
The main objective of this research proposal is to establish the effects of gender balance on job satisfaction and performance of employees on the Nyamasaria -
CITY CAMPUS
SCHOOL OF PLANNING AND ARCHITECTURE
DEPARTMENT OF URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING
the IMPACT OF GENDER BALANCE ON JOB SATISFACTION AND PERFORMANCE OF EMPLOYEES on road projects: a comparative study of rural and urban projects.
SUBMITTED BY:
OTWANI JUSTUS AUFRIDUS
REG NO: PG/MA/020/2011
A research proposal submitted to the School of Graduate Studies in Partial fulfillment for the award of Master of Arts Degree in Project Planning and Management.
I declare that this project proposal is my original work and to the best of my knowledge it has not been presented to any university for any mark therefore it remains my original work.
Student name: Justus Aufridus Otwani
PG/MA/020/2011
Signature ……………………………..
Date……………………………………
Presented with the approval of:
Supervisor’s name: Jenifer Otieno
Signature……………………………….
Date…………………………………….
Abstract
In spite of multiple national and global efforts to promote gender equality and create an enabling environment for the increased participation of women in historically male dominated professions; gender imbalance particularly in non-agricultural wage employment persists. Although women represent 50.3% of the Kenyan population they only constitute 30% of the overall wage employment. This problem is more evident in the construction industry in general and the road sector in particular. Women constitute 7% of the overall wage employment in the building and construction industry. On the Nyamasaria – Kericho road project, which boasts a much higher percentage of female employees than most road projects so far undertaken in Kenya, women constitute an average of 11 % of the total work force.
The main objective of this research proposal is to establish the effects of gender balance on job satisfaction and performance of employees on the Nyamasaria -
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