How women endeavours hold the world up

The burden of unemployment is the elephant in the room for Kenya and many other developing countries today. But effects of their plight are not spread equally. It rests disproportionately on the shoulders of women, majority of whom are poor and despondent. Today, one-third of the country's population is between 18 and 34 years – far more young people than there are jobs to support them and the situation continues getting out of hand.

According to the World Bank, while 800,000 youth reach working age annually, only 50,000 new formal modern-wage jobs are created. It is because of this imbalance that 80 per cent of the country's 2.3 million unemployed are between the ages of 15 and 34.