KCSE 2022: List of 7 counties with high gender disparity in favour of females
By evans.maritim, January 20, 2023
Fourteen counties had more male than female candidates in the 2022 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCSE) examination compared to 17 counties in 2021, Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu said on Friday, January 20.
These were: Mombasa, Kilifi, Tana River, Lamu, Turkana, Samburu, West Pokot, Kajiado, Narok, Homabay, Migori, Garissa, Wajir and Mandera.
The CS also said there were seven counties with high gender disparity in favour of female candidates during the 2022 KCSE examination.
The counties were Kirinyaga, Kiambu, Kitui, Meru, Tharaka Nithi, Vihiga, and Kisumu.
2022 KCSE candidates
Some 881,416 candidates sat the 2022 KCSE examination compared with 826,807 candidates in 2021.
This represented an increase of 54,609 candidates (6.60%).
Of the total number of candidates that sat the exam, 443,644 were males while 437,772 were females, representing 50.33 per cent and 49.67 per cent of the total candidature respectively.
“This statistic means the country has achieved gender parity, in much the same way as we have done at the primary school level,” the CS said.