More married women now have say on how husbands' salaries are spent

The latest data shows that 79.1 percent of women in unions decide alone or with their partners about large household purchases, up from 71.2 percent of them in 2014.

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More married women are now having a say on how earnings by their husbands are spent, a new survey has revealed.

A report by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) on women empowerment over the past decade shows the proportion of women deciding where or how their husbands’ incomes should be spent has risen from 55.5 percent to 58.9 percent since 2014.

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Note: The results are not exact but very close to the actual.