It should be noted that as women economic empowerment becomes increasingly of
much concern, lack of information on factors affecting the management of WGs MSEs
in Kenya is also becoming an increasing concern to the government and stakeholders.
It is against this background of failure and lack of sustainability of most WGs MSEs,
coupled with lack of enough information about the MSEs management in Kenya, that
the need to research in this field was considered important like never before. Within
this study, particular emphasis is placed on gender issues that relate to the
management of MSEs by women.