[1] Wainaina became involved in gender and development work in the early 1970s, and since then has been a leader in the women's movement in Kenya.
She attended global meetings of the World Conference on Women in Mexico City (1975), Nairobi (1985) and Beijing (1995).
[2] When she retired from FEMNET she was succeeded by Lynne Muthoni Wanyeki, a radical feminist in her early thirties.
Many hold the view that because men and boys are the beneficiaries of male privilege and discrimination against women and girls, they can never understand our struggle.
Work with men and boys for gender equality is only one of the many strategies that must be combined to tackle the ever-growing problems of inequality, injustice and oppression".