An award-winning Nation Media Group journalist has opened up on her ordeal with a company CEO who kicked her out of a job offer for being married.
The Daily Nation top writer, during the weekend, revealed that the same company had reached out to her this week offering her a plum job through the same CEO.
In her more than six years career at NMG, the writer has defined the country’s talk through her outstanding reporting on health matters, science, environment, human rights and national security.
At a time she was desperately looking for a job, the religious organisation’s boss asked her to leave the company premises when she admitted that her marriage was not formally instituted.
“I tried to explain but he still asked me to leave. His problem was that I had not done a church wedding yet I was married,” she told Kenyans.co.ke on Sunday.
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The CEO told her in the face that even though she was qualified, the organization being a religious one does not employ women who got married through the famous 'come-we-stay', single mothers and pregnant women.
She left heartbroken, all she saw in her life was how her marriage life had cast her into being the “most immoral being on planet earth and wondering the parameters they use for evaluating men's morals.”
In a desperate search for a communications guru, the CEO, having followed through the journalist’s successes, approached her again and presented a filled up salary offer for a digital communications role.
The writer has since declined the offer maintaining that nothing much had changed from the day she was pushed to speak on what was supposedly her personal life before the CEO’s panel.
She opened up on her young marriage life hoping the panel would let her in for the job 10 years ago.
“Well, I know I could lose my current job, it’s possible, nothing is permanent, but Thank You.... but I still am the old girl you discriminated against and hurt, just a bit older and witty because God got my back. Otherwise, nothing changed.” she wrote.
Here is what other journalists and Kenyans said about her experience:
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