Where are the women? Inside the gender gap holding back Kenyaβs 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 womenβs health, family struggles, or gender-based violence were often derided as βsoftβ or unworthy of…