Land Law and Gender Issues in Kenya (original) (raw)

It is an often-ignored fact that the term ‘gender’ is a neutral one. The term primarily addresses socio-economic differences as opposed to purely sexual ones. However, owing primarily to the struggle for equity and equality between the sexes it has grown to be predominantly associated with differences between men and women in society. It is in this latter context that gender issues with regard to land are to be examined in this paper. Land law, on its part, is basically the law governing land tenure in Kenya, which in turn encompasses the manner in which individuals or groups in society hold or have access to land. Therefore, the topic at hand addresses the issue of the law governing access to land in Kenya with particular emphasis on the differences if any in the modes of such accessibility between men and women.