Women and development: An approach to research at the University of Nairobi in the Kakamega district

Abstract

During the past decade, numerous works have been published in almost all parts of the world that address the problem of gender relations, and more specifically, of women. Universities and their research institutes are not left out of this trend, but on the contrary, they provide methods and conceptual tools that make it possible to overcome the initial problems of individual biographies and the "invisibility" of women in history and history. human development, to incorporate them definitively, together with men, as protagonists and makers of history, although their voice, almost always, is a distant echo mediated by the word and the will of men.