World Poverty Clock<\/a> indicates that 4.1million women in Kenya are living below the standard poverty line of $1.90 per day with only 3.7 million men belonging to the same category, pointing to gender pay gap. The agency points out rural Kenya and urban slums to be the breeding grounds for penury. <\/p>\n\n\n\nIn\ntotal, 7.8 million Kenyans live in abject poverty, representing 16 percent of\nthe population (48.8 million), the real-time data shows. It\u2019s an improvement\nover the past three years when the same agency put the country\u2019s destitution rate\nat 22 percent in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In\nthe region, Kenya has the lowest share of poor people while Burundi has the\nhighest rate with more than three quarters (76 percent) of its population\nwallowing in poverty, followed by Rwanda (46 percent or nearly half of the\npopulation). In Uganda, which has an overall poverty level of 37 percent, 8.4\nmillion women are deep in penury while Tanzania, whose poverty rate is 39\npercent, has a pool of 11.4 million poor women. In Ethiopia, a quarter of the\npopulation lives below the poverty line out of which 13.3 million are females,\nmore than three times Kenya\u2019s share of impoverished women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Though\nwomen have in recent years made gains in corporate, business, sporting and\nleadership worlds, earning decent incomes, there still remain huge gender pay\ngaps and biases in access to opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Encouragingly,\nrecent calls for gender parity have seen a number of local firms open up\nexecutive suites to professional females for diversity and gender equity even\nas more women than men climb higher up the education ladder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Just\na layer above the poverty line is a huge pool of Kenyans living on the edge,\nand always at risk of slipping back to poverty should unemployment, sickness or\ndrought strike among other shocks. With the global coronavirus having induced\npartial shutdowns and cooling business activity, more households look set to\nslide into the red territory with the prospects of job cuts and business\nlosses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Only 42 Kenyans are getting out of poverty every hour,\nrepresenting a poverty escape rate of 0.7 people per minute, the World Poverty\nClock shows. This falls short of the momentum (84 people per hour or double the\ncurrent rate) required to eliminate destitution by 2030 as per the UN\u2019s Sustainable\nDevelopment Goals (SDGs).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Analysts said that Kenya\u2019s sluggish performance in poverty reduction despite recent impressive economic growth points to unequal wealth distribution among a population grappling with high rate of joblessness, denying households a steady stream of income flow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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