Performance of Women in Small Scale Enterprises (SSEs) : Marital Status and Family Characteristics
Abstract
This study discusses the family characteristics and marital status of women entrepreneurs and suggests
policy options to improve performance of women operated SSE
S in Kenya. It also examines the family
responsibilities of the women entrepreneurs to determine if there is a correlation between the family
responsibilities and the performance of women owners and or managers of SSEs. It makes an immense
contribution to
the literature by evaluating the direction and significance of the relationship of family
characteristics and responsibilities of women in SSEs to performance of their enterprises. This study used
correlation matrix and regression analysis to determine the
direction of relationship and significance of the
two factors to performance of the SSEs . The results of the analysis show that family characteristics and
responsibilities independently have no significant relationship to performance. Marital status of t
he women
owners and managers of SSEs in Kenya are not significant to performance.