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Girls can do better than boys; we just have to shift our focus

St Georges High School

Form One students wait for admission at St Georges' High School in Nairobi on august 2, 2021.

Photo credit: Diana Ngila | Nation Media Group

Fellow ladies, I believe you have heard the expression that what a man can do, a woman can do better.

If this statement is true, where do we go wrong? Compared to men, we have fewer female engineers, pilots and even lawyers.