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What is Waiguru's first priority?

Although some critics have warned that women should not come out to defend fellow women on the simple basis that they are women, society cannot be blind to the fact that women are more harshly judged than men when it comes to public opinion. I cannot help wonder whether the criticism on Devolution and Planning Cabinet Secretary Anne Waiguru is heightened by the fact that she is a woman.

Looking at the hard stand Ms Waiguru has taken over the graft revelations, she seems confident of her situation and devoid of the embarrassing looting revealed. Could she be a victim of Sheryl Sandberg’s (the author of Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead) analysis?.

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