ABSTRACT
This chapter examines income distribution at further disaggregated levels within the rural and urban sectors, in an attempt to establish what accounts for the huge inequalities. It explores the relationship between land inequality and income distribution. In Kenya, as is true in much of Africa, most of the rural female headed households are de facto female headed households due to the migration of the men to urban centres for employment. Central province borders Nairobi to the north and for a long time has been the major source of migrant labour to the city, which of course is Kenya's largest urban labour market. One of the major findings of research that has looked at the difference in households due to the gender of the head of household is the fact that female headed households tend to be poorer than male headed households. Education may improve actual labour productivity in farming.
