Analysis on Gender differences in Labor Market outcomes in Rwanda

Abstract

Gender differences in labor market outcomes have a major negative influence on economic growth of many countries, in Rwanda gender differences are still persist in some sectors and the inequality between women and men punish women’s participation in the income work. This research sheds insight on the analysis on gender differences in labor market in Rwanda. According to the data from Integrated Household Living Condition Survey conducted in 2016/2017, the evidence obtained from running logistic model in Stata shows that, when comparing male and female, males are more likely to have a high level of education, males are more likely to have a high annual turnover, and males are more likely to have a good contract type as an employee. There is still existence of gender differences in some sectors even if Rwanda is among of the best countries which tried to put at the end the gender inequality in all domains as done in parliament where 30% of female in constitution but there is still a barrier for achieving the gender equality which is a key of achieving easily and early economic growth where male and female are equal pay for work, equal contribution on development of the country and the same contribution in the realization of national target as the National Strategy for Transformation (NST1). The small difference between male and female implies that Ministry of education must focus on the implementation of the established policies in order to achieve the gender equality which is a key of economic growth. Based on annual income, salary they gain and type of contract under which they work, the policy makers in different ministries of Rwanda especially policy makers in Gender Monitoring Officer (GMO) should follow the implementation of gender responsive employment policies that can facilitate in mitigating the indicated factors that contribute to gender differences in labor market outcomes in Rwanda.