
Where are the women? Inside the gender gap holding back Kenya’s newsrooms
When Zubeida Kananu first walked into a Kenyan newsroom nearly two decades ago, she quickly realised what the pecking order looked like. Men set the agenda, occupied the leadership desks, and dictated the subjects and the tone of the news. Stories about women’s health, family struggles, or gender-based violence were often derided as “soft” or unworthy of…