The Kenyan woman story needs to be told from the start

Former Karachuonyo MP and UN envoy Phoebe Asiyo. [James Omoro, Standard]

The dangers of a single story in the realm of women leadership are real and with devastating impacts. Despite the tremendous contribution of women in both the public and private sector since independence, little has been done to document and archive our footprint in political and socio-economic spheres.

Little is told about the women of the 1990s who trailed their guns on the attainment of affirmative action through a unifying movement dubbed; the second liberation struggle. Without these women-led by Hon. Phoebe Asiyo who tabled the first affirmative action Bill in 1997, the place of women in the August 2010 Constitution would be just, but a mere footnote.