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Why women never got pension and house allowance

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Health worker Grace Ogot (left) training mothers on maternal child care in Kisumu in June 1963. [File, Standard]

The absurdities of our times! Although the country is still struggling to achieve gender parity more than a decade after the entrenchment of this right in the Constitution, Kenyan women have faced worse treatment in the past.

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