Safaricom achieves 50pc female employees target

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Kenya Forest Service chairman Peter Kimani Kinywa (left) with Safaricom Chief Corporate Affairs Officer Stephen Chege on August 22, 2019. PHOTO | SALATON NJAU | NMG
In Summary
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Safaricom says it has achieved 50 percent share of female employees on its payroll, coming amid an increase in the number of direct and indirect jobs it sustained in the last financial year growing nine percent to 979,000.
This is according to the telco’s 2019 Sustainable Business Report released on Thursday in which the firm also announced a plan to plant five million trees in the next five years as part of a carbon offset programme.
“We have achieved a 50:50 gender balance among our employees and 34 percent of senior management are women. In addition, 2.1 percent of our staff are persons living with disabilities,” the report notes.
In the year under review, the firm says 178 women-owned businesses were pre-qualified under its Women in Business initiative.
The firm supports 167,083 M-Pesa agents, 433 dealers, 1,138 suppliers, 4,503 permanent employees as well as other stakeholders.
The company had a staff headcount of 6,323 (permanent and contract staff) as at March 2019, an increase from 6,130 in 201

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Toxic feminism tightens its hold on the continent.

But while it may work for one company, equality of outcome may not work for the majority of the workforce in the country.

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Does leveling the playing fields scare you this much?

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maneno ya equality hapana tambua pick a person based on the qualifications ako nayo it will save your enterprise a great deal

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No it doesn’t.

But forcing things to the detriment of men does. It should scare you too.

“Studies show that women in the tech industry constitute only 28% of professionals in the sector worldwide, and just 30% in Sub-Saharan Africa.” - UNESCO

And that’s not because there is inequality in opportunities to study technical subjects. It’s because women will generally gravitate towards non- technical subjects in school.

For example, in any “natural” setup, there will be more male than women mkokoteni drivers, and more women than male mboches. Na hakuna mtu anakataza wanawake wasivute mikokoteni.

So forcibly constituting a workforce with equal male and female workers when the pool that you draw them from does not have equal ratio of male-to-female individuals of similar capabilities, is going to be unfair to (some) males and you are going to run into problems.

But it can be done on a small scale.

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As a savvy executive, you know women are paid less than men. Safaricom is in a “soft” service business, which in most cases requires HS skills. If you can fill the lower cadres with cheap labor, why would you hire people who can beat you up?

Plus, you can use the fact that you hire women as a PR tool. Everybody “wins.”

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you must be the first smart talker ive met.as for safaricom i think it benefits them alot to have oestrogen filled spaces.though i think women tend to have low outputs as compared to men

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Good point, Some people don’t realize that equal opportunity don’t necessarily create equal outcomes and would only hurt one side if implemented by sheer force. There will always be major differences in the preferences of each demographic, but we should make crossing the bridge easier for both genders

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The whole equality/feminist movement was advanced to reduce labor costs in the west. And it also made it easy for the government to keep more people in debt through mortgage, student loans etc.