The Joint admissions board lowered the cut-off point for females to 61 points. The cut off point for male students remains at 63 points. This is a difference of a massive two points, which in effect represents thousands of students. It doesn’t matter that the female student could have been a student at a high cost national school such as The Kenya high school while the male student could have attended a remote school in north eastern province.
True, the process aims to increase the number of female university students but is the Kenyan boy child being left behind? These days, if a male candidate goes to a job interview with a female candidate and they score roughly the same points, then the male candidate can kiss the job goodbye. Though not noticeable, it begins to slowly build resentment on the Kenyan men and this sometimes explains the attitude of the Kenyan men towards women. Could this explain the trend of women driving powerful cars nowadays, while the men are busy driving Vits and other cars that would be considered of low class? The resentment in men is being shown in the form of drunkard ness, drug abuse and so on.
The new constitution guarantees that at least a third of the slots in public offices be occupied by women. While this is a very laudable move, steps must also be taken to ensure that the Kenyan boy child is not left behind. Otherwise, not too distant in the future, boys will simply lose track and interest in the improvement of their of their lives.
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