Gender inequalities and female self-achievement: educational challenges and community development in Kenya

Abstract

The essay deals with the fight against poverty, access to education, support for personal planning and female emancipation. These priorities will be dealt starting from some research experiences carried out in an African context, where the daily needs challenge Europeanist interpretative approach and intercultural education. The analysis will focus on relationships and require cultural review processes in which to move away from the desire to fully understand the complexity, with all its contradictions, in order to finally be able to live it. The differences in gender, disadvantage and subordination in which girls are placed, especially in economic and educational poor environments, are closely connected to the difficult access to basic services and to design trajectories of self-efficacy entrusted to the repetition of models that hardly contemplate other alternatives. However, there are contexts in which the self-affirmation is supported, by training, educational and social agencies that promote the potential and the skills development of kids, girls and young women who, like the male gender, can activate circuits of personal fulfillment and social regeneration with a subjective and community impact.

Keywords

• female empowerment
• self-affirmation
• community development