Kenyan President: Women Have ‘Little Minds’
Daniel arap Moi, president of Kenya, made headlines in that African nation when he said that women were underachieving because they have “little minds.”
“You [women] can achieve more, can get more but because of your little minds, you cannot get what you are expected to get,” Moi said.
It didn’t help matters any that Moi chose to make his remarks at the opening of a regional women’s seminar in Nairobi.
Moi’s remarks were condemned and criticized by a wide range of leaders in Kenya from the head of the Catholic church to the chairman of the Law Society of Kenya.
Source:
Outrage at Moi remark. Joseph Warungu, The BBC, March 8, 2001.
The Kenyan President: Women Have ‘Little Minds’ by Brian Carnell, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.
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