Women shouldn't play second fiddle in leadership

NAIROBI: I still do not understand why not a single woman was elected as governor in the March 2013 General Election. This was a big disappointment for a country that elected its first female mayor in 1965 - Grace Onyango was elected to run Kisumu Town at a time when many believed the place of a woman was in the kitchen.

Fast-forward 48 years later, to a time when there was significant change and attitudinal shifts in society about women's equality and emancipation, and we have regressed. We are told that women make up more than half of the registered voters in the country, meaning if women believed in themselves, they would have elected several of their own in the 2013 elections, and by a landslide.