"Even if they are going to fail, we are going to fail with them": The hopes and realities of women's suffrage under the 2010 Constitution

Christina Kenny

"Even if they are going to fail, we are going to fail with them": The hopes and realities of women's suffrage under the 2010 Constitution

Christina Kenny

Sociology & Criminology

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Introduction

One of the greatest hopes of the 2010 Kenyan Constitution was that the extensive provisions for the promotion and protection of women's rights would be successful in in breaking the vicious grip of patriarchal politics and promote a new generation of women parliamentarians and local government officials. As well as mentioning women in a list of groups identified as marginalised and in need of institutional and structural support, quotas were entrenched to ensure women's representation in parliament. In spite of these safeguards, the first elections under the new constitution in 2013 returned very few women to elected to positions other than those designated as women only positions.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 38th AFSAAP Conference: 21st Century Tensions and Transformation in Africa
Place of Publication	Australia
Publisher	African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific (AFSAAP)
Pages	1-18
ISBN (Print)	9780994268914
Publication status	Published - Feb 2016
Event	AFSAAP 2015: 38th African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific Conference - Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia Duration: 28 Oct 2015 → 30 Oct 2015

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Conference	AFSAAP 2015: 38th African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific Conference
City	Melbourne, Australia
Period	28/10/15 → 30/10/15

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SDG 5 Gender Equality

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Kenny, C. (2016). "Even if they are going to fail, we are going to fail with them": The hopes and realities of women's suffrage under the 2010 Constitution. In Proceedings of the 38th AFSAAP Conference: 21st Century Tensions and Transformation in Africa (pp. 1-18). African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific (AFSAAP). https://web.archive.org/web/20170214203247/http://afsaap.org.au/conference/conference-2015/

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