Kisumu East parliamentary aspirant Joy Gwendo has challenged women to take their male counterparts head on in the race for the August 8 polls.
Gwendo, who is seeking to unseat Shakeel Shabir on Mondy challenged women aspirants to come out and fight it out with men for elective positions instead of waiting for special seats.
“The only way to achieve political equality is when we deliberately come out and face the electorates.
“Let us not sit and wait to be given these positions, need to create the opportunities. We must come out and vie for these positions,” she said.
She urged women to go for political parties which support women, in a move calculated at wooing them to join the Jubilee Party. JP she said, offered aspirants of both sexes a fair chance at leadership.
Speaking to journalists at Kibos during a mentorship programme to woo more women to join elective politics, the nominated senator said there was need to push for the election of more women to bridge the leadership gap between them and their male counterparts.
"Women should come out and fight with men for all elective posts from members of the county assembly to MP and governorship and even the presidential seat. It is time to break this perception that women can only go for the Women representative seat or wait to be nominated,” said Gwendo.
She said women brought into politics compassion and an understanding that was lacking among the male leaders.