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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.
This discrimination was cemented during the enactment of the Registration of Persons Act in 1949 which disregarded the existence of women, setting the stage for systemic discrimination.
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