Gone are the days when women use to belong strictly to the kitchen,its high time the society wore a gender lens in addressing some of the emerging issues.
Some utterances made by renowned leaders are quite heart breaking,for instance when the president of Nigeria says that his wife belongs to the kitchen,it depicts how the society at large is affected by gender blindness.
Does it then mean that we are aware of the capabilities and skills women possess but we are in denial? Quite often the society uses the alibi that the girl child is overempowered but to what extent?
There is a very huge need of implementing goal give of the SDGs,Gender equality.for example in some of the offices what is the ratio of men to women considering their post and influence in decision making in that company?
Just like any other gender women need to be given chances influence change by including them and giving them full participation in decision making.
In as much as we are in the 21st century we still have challenges of retrogressive cultures for example FGM.the women in the urban settings should be the ones to preach the gospel to the others on the dangers of this types of cultures kudos to the women who are already doing that.
Political marginalization is an issue that should be addressed,there is a way the society looks at woman leader; underperforming,emotional etc.But does that qualify them to say women are not capable? The president of Liberia was a woman,finance minister for Ethiopia a woman,hillary Clinton is a woman,martha Karua,orie-rogo manduli,the late wangari maathai,mekatilili wa Menza,malala is still a young woman need I say more?
The policies we make need to address some of our issues as women and that's why we need women representation in parliament.
In the kiswahili literature book"utengano"the writter portrays women as the enemy of their own"mwanamke ni Audi ya mwanamke mwenzake" as women we need to build each other,coz together we stand a part we fall just like the 2/3 gender rule.
We have numerous examples we can learn from I.e the story of Malala the young Afghanistan girl is very Inspiring.
We women are the pillars of this nation let's send to make it a better nation!
Some utterances made by renowned leaders are quite heart breaking,for instance when the president of Nigeria says that his wife belongs to the kitchen,it depicts how the society at large is affected by gender blindness.
Does it then mean that we are aware of the capabilities and skills women possess but we are in denial? Quite often the society uses the alibi that the girl child is overempowered but to what extent?
There is a very huge need of implementing goal give of the SDGs,Gender equality.for example in some of the offices what is the ratio of men to women considering their post and influence in decision making in that company?
Just like any other gender women need to be given chances influence change by including them and giving them full participation in decision making.
In as much as we are in the 21st century we still have challenges of retrogressive cultures for example FGM.the women in the urban settings should be the ones to preach the gospel to the others on the dangers of this types of cultures kudos to the women who are already doing that.
Political marginalization is an issue that should be addressed,there is a way the society looks at woman leader; underperforming,emotional etc.But does that qualify them to say women are not capable? The president of Liberia was a woman,finance minister for Ethiopia a woman,hillary Clinton is a woman,martha Karua,orie-rogo manduli,the late wangari maathai,mekatilili wa Menza,malala is still a young woman need I say more?
The policies we make need to address some of our issues as women and that's why we need women representation in parliament.
In the kiswahili literature book"utengano"the writter portrays women as the enemy of their own"mwanamke ni Audi ya mwanamke mwenzake" as women we need to build each other,coz together we stand a part we fall just like the 2/3 gender rule.
We have numerous examples we can learn from I.e the story of Malala the young Afghanistan girl is very Inspiring.
We women are the pillars of this nation let's send to make it a better nation!
Great piece Ann. Indeed any progressive society need not just recognize the role of women and girls but meaningfully involve them
ReplyDeleteThank you sir Nguti,true slot needs to be done
DeleteThank you sir Nguti,true slot needs to be done
DeleteGreat piece Ann. Indeed any progressive society need not just recognize the role of women and girls but meaningfully involve them
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