It is very encouraging that little girls and young women in this country will grow up seeing women in top leadership positions.
As a country, we must not allow this to become a once-in-a-lifetime event or a one-time show of support for women in leadership.
With the official swearing-in of Chief Justice Martha Koome, Kenyans were understandably excited at the prospect of the first woman Chief Justice. However, it was a picture circulated by the Judicial Service Commission’s official social media pages that truly captured the magnitude and significance of this truly historic time.
In the photo was the top leadership of the Judiciary; a formidable team of three strong women dressed to the nines in heels and pearls, a red carpet rolled out for them against the background of the towering Supreme Court of Kenya.
