Kamenu Community Based Organisation Chairperson and activist Esther Mueni has called for empowerment of women with little education.
This is through various social and economic programmes.
Speaking on Thursday at Makongeni Christian Church International during the commemoration of International Human Rights Day organised by the CBO, Mueni argued that empowerment of women has much been focused on the elite class leaving out the rest.
"It is very unfortunate that among us women we are discriminating our colleagues based on education, social status and things like those," said Mueni.
She added: "That is why you find that when a woman leader or any other who is considered to have a class in the society seems to be unfairly targeted we all rise up, go to the media and start various campaigns to defend them."
Mueni termed it as discrimination when many women with even bigger problems are not helped out of them because they are not known.
"What of that woman in the village being battered, raped or being meted with violence. Who is her voice? This is the descrimination we are saying must stop. A 'mama' mboga and woman CEO of a big company must be treated equally for women empowerment to fully be realised," Mueni said.
This year's Human Rights Day was celebrated under the theme: 'Our Rights, Our Freedoms Always'.