Gender inequality still exists in Kenya

Gender inequality is the disparity in power status and prestige between people who identify themselves as men and women. Gender inequality still exists in Kenya.

Kenyan rich women are taking over the man in the role of bread winning. This seems to be good to everyone because the figures in the news are making gender inequality to be seen as a thing of the past. Most women today make more than what their husbands make. Going back to school, college degrees and doctorates are earned by women.

There is an improved education and employment progress in numbers for women. Regardless of this changes and progress, it could be wrong to claim that Kenya is free from gender inequality.

This is not true in the labor force, the news in the magazines proclaim that the advocates for women’s right and the academics disapproves the declaration of women worker’s victory.  The status of a woman in the labor force is undermined. There is a wage gap between the women and men. A woman working full time will be paid the same as a man working part time. Additionally, women who are in the managerial position hardly get a pay rise as compared to their male counterparts.

In the work force, gender disparity is expressed in terms of status and power, being that women represent 50% in the work force they are not presentment in the top management position regardless of the professional competency. The companies assume to be taking the disparity into consideration but in the reality they don’t.

However, the human rights director and the policy makers should enforce laws to manage the workforce and the educational sectors aiming at doing away with gender disparity.