‘Kenya’s housewife economy’: How women’s march into the workplace has created a billion-shilling industry

Women have left behind multi-billion-shilling business opportunities as they exit their homes for offices and factories.

Household chores that were traditionally done by stay-at-home moms – who have long gone without pay for the work they do – have now turned into a source of income for thousands.

This growing trend has been eye-opening for economists who’d taken issue with the use of gross domestic product (GDP) as a means of measuring a country’s wealth. This measure, they says, doesn’t take account the value of the work done by housewives.