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Besides job creations and responding to care needs, a central argument justifying the development of in-home care has been that of gender equality. In her paper, Emilia Roig argues that the stated policy objective of “freeing” the productive potential of the more highly-skilled women - as announced by the European Commission – widens the gender pay gap, instead of fostering gender equality in the workplace.

In 2013, Sheena Magenya came to Germany for an international conference at the invitation of the Heinrich Böll Foundation. She had no problems getting a visa at the German Embassy in Nairobi. She thinks that her positive experience is also related to the reason for her trip.