It is hard for women, and even men, to resist Karua's allure

Raila Odinga’s running mate Martha Karua. [Stafford Ondego, Standard]

The entry of Martha Karua into a prospective presidential ticket has fixed women into their own half.

For women, who for whatever reason, justified or not, do not intend to vote for Martha Karua the authoritative Global Gender Gap Index report (2021) bears some statistics on the place of women particularly in political engagement that are hard to swallow but nevertheless important to know. Many researches locally and globally carry similar grim impressions of where history has placed women. Kenya trails others countries in closing the gender gap.