Abstract:
Newspapers in Kenya are written for men, and about the affairs of men, whereas
women remain invisible in relation to the serious issues of the day. But there have been
efforts to cover women’s issues, and to sell newspapers to Kenyan women. These have
taken the form of having separate and detached ‘women’s pages’ slotted into the main
newspapers. The supplements are filled with stereotyped roles of domesticity, beauty,
and fantasy, thus denying women’s productive role in society. This article analyses the
negative and stereotyped portrayal of women in the Kenyan print media, and considers
what implications this has for the country’s development.
