Creation of proper secular society key to gender parity

John Harrington Ndeta

The most stylish thing in today’s world as championed by civilised communities is gender equality. The Scandinavian countries have the most progressive gender equality measure with nearly half of the elected legislators being women. We applaud Iceland, Norway, Finland, Sweden for leading the way in having the most gender equal societies across the globe. This can be attributed to long-standing equality in education and health; and deliberate passing of laws that allowed for the large proportion of women into the labour force, with small salary gaps and strong representation in high-skilled jobs.

Kenya, on the other hand, is trying and some of the efforts falling flat like the postponed Gender Bill in Parliament due to lack of quorum. This led me to ask several questions about gender equality and what informs a society’s move towards it.