We’re living a lie on gender equity

Given this week’s media coverage on the need to respect mothers, it is worth delving deeper into the real problems faced by girls and women in Kenya. To be blunt, we are still very far from achieving true gender equality.

This is not to say that we have not made some good progress – such as in narrowing the gender gap in primary and secondary school attendance. Yet while things may be better than they used to be, we still have a long way to go. In our personal and public lives, we remain dangerously tolerant of misogyny and its abhorrent consequences.