Female legislators ready for irreducible minimum in two thirds bill

Martha Karua (middle), National Gender and equality Commission (NGEC) Chairperson Winfred Lichuma (right) and Commission for Implementation of the Constitution (CIC) Catherine Mumma at the NGEC meeting on achieving the two third gender rule at the Sarova Stanley. [Photo by Angela Maina/Standard]

Female MPs will turn to the President for help to ensure passage in Parliament of a bill to that aims to ensure gender balance in leadership.

At a meeting between Public Service, Youth and Gender Affairs Cabinet Secretary Margaret Kobia and female legislators, women were urged to change tack in their push for enactment of the Two-thirds Gender bill.