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Access to and Participation of Women with Disabilities in Higher Education in Kenya

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The role of higher education in advancing opportunities for women with disabilities cannot be contested. Education provides substantial, proven benefits for people in terms of individual development and producing appropriate human resource capital that is integral in spurring productivity, which is crucial in the elimination of poverty, disease, and ignorance, thus ultimately improving societal welfare. Observations indicate that access to higher education opportunities for women with disabilities remains low more so in Kenyan institutions of higher learning albeit an elaborate legal and policy framework for the education of persons living with disabilities. Institutional and personal factors are some of the obstacles to access and participation of women with disabilities to higher education. This conceptual chapter provides a general background to this topic and theorizes on some of the issues that hinder women living with disabilities from accessing higher education opportunities.

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Mwarari, C. (2022). Access to and Participation of Women with Disabilities in Higher Education in Kenya. In: Wakiaga, L.A. (eds) Women’s Contribution to Higher Education and Social Transformation. Diversity and Inclusion Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95622-6_3

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