Socio- Economic Empowerment of the Marginalised Women in the Society
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1999-03
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Tangaza University College
Abstract
The purpose of this Full Project Thesis is to research the factors that causes socio-economic
marginalisation of women in the society and how they can be empowered socio-economically. This will
be only be limited to Ruiru Catholic Parish which covers the whole Division..The researcher has
worked in the Parish as Social Minister, for sometimes and therefore his personal experience will
contribute a lot to this Project thesis. The researcher encountered the women at working areas in the
Parish. The women inhabiting this Particular Parish can be categorised into various groups. There are
those who are married, single mothers, windows and divorces. Our research will try to cover all the
above women classes, since in each category, we have the socio-economic marginalised women among
the five mentioned groups.
This chapter will deal with; Geographical background, flistorical background of the inhabitants,
Background of the problem, Objectives of the research, Assumption of the research, clarification of
terms and organisation of the research. Chapter one deals with background of the Ruiru Parish and
historical background of its inhabitants. The chapter also is elaborating about the background of the
problem, statement of the problem, justification of the problem, research question objectives of the
research, research assumptions the scope and limitations of the research and finally, the key words for
the research are clarified. Chapter two has outlined the literature review of the project research while
chapter three is informing us on the research methodology applied. Chapter four deals with the data
analysis, i.e., on the results and discussions. The last chapter, i.e., chapter five is informing us on the
kind of project proposal proposed for this research. Pertaining to this full scale project thesis we have
tried to make use of both qualitative and quantitative approaches whereby we integrated them with
the see-judge-act methodology. The time we had was short and so we cannot pretend that this work
was exhaustive.
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Social Economic, Empowerment, marginalized women, Society