Chinese, Kenyans celebrate International Women’s Day
Li Ping (right), the wife of the Chinese Ambassador to Kenya, Liu Xianfa, Dr Margaret Lusaka (second from right), the wife of Kenya’s Senate Speaker Kenneth Lusaka and several women during the International Women's Day reception at the Chinese embassy in Kenya on March 7, 2018. Edith Mutethya/China Daily.
Lusaka said that she wished that Kenyan women could visit China, interact with women from those who are living in the rural areas and those in the middle class, to those in the corporate world, so that ``each category of the Kenyan woman can be able to learn something".
Waithera Chege, the Nairobi South B, member of county assembly who is also the deputy majority whip of the county assembly of Nairobi, said women should be supported to participate in political leadership.
Despite this year's International Women’s Day theme being pressing for progress, she said often times there is no progress when it comes to politics. "In Nairobi County Assembly for instance, out of the 85 elective positions only 5 are women elected from Nairobi," she noted.
She said that the Chinese embassy in Kenya should partner not only in social and political issues, but also on how it can help Kenyan women progress in business.
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