Panellists drawn from various industries discuss gender equality during the Nation Leadership Forum at the University of Nairobi on December 7, 2017. Newsrooms must employ human resource policies that will ensure that the gender principle is realised. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP
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What you need to know:
Having more women at the helm of media leadership and management serves as a catalyst for younger generations to consider, seek and aspire to attain leadership roles in future.
We must be deliberate about creating safe spaces for women in the newsrooms to talk about the challenges they face as they execute their roles.
The journey towards the realisation of the two-thirds gender principle in this country has been loud, bumpy, messy and with casualties.
According to the National Gender and Equality Commission (NGEC), it is a journey that has been punctuated with epic highs and lows that morphed into one of the most heavily debated and contentious issues after the adoption of the 2010 Constitution.
