For clan elders in Wajir County, a less educated male candidate is still preferable to an educated woman who is regarded as a “weak” leader who...
Parliament’s failure to enact laws to bring women into elected national leadership has only exposed its soft underbelly, revealing a combination of narcissism and incompetence.
The Supreme Court's edict to President Kenyatta on the 2/3rds gender rule was the only legal way to go argues Prof. Makau Mutua. However, while the...
The Supreme Court’s ‘advisory’ to President Kenyatta emerged out of a constitution that anticipates the President’s recalcitrance with regards to issues such as the 2/3rds gender...
The Chief Justice's advisory on the two-thirds gender rule to the President is the most consequential decision of the Supreme Court to date. Constitutional lawyer and...
Background The women’s conference in Beijing in 1995 emphasised that what was needed in law making bodies was enough women to have an impact (not just...