Osun State Government has assured women in the state of its readiness to create a conducive atmosphere to allow them take active role in politics.
It also promised to create a conducive avenue for their economic empowerment for the growth and development of the state.
Governor Rauf Aregbesola made the promise in Osogbo at a one-day workshop on women participation in politics organized by the office of the First Lady in collaboration with the Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Welfare.
Aregbesola who was represented by his deputy, Mrs. Titilayo Laoye-Tomori, lamented that women are always relegated to the background when it comes to allocation of position of authorities, noted that the male dominated political system must be changed for the development of the society, explaining that if our rural women are well taken care of, the society will be empowered and economy improved because they (women) constitute more than 60% of the population.
Read more at All Africa, published 25 October 2012.
Osun State Government has assured women in the state of its readiness to create a conducive atmosphere to allow them take active role in politics.
It also promised to create a conducive avenue for their economic empowerment for the growth and development of the state.
Governor Rauf Aregbesola made the promise in Osogbo at a one-day workshop on women participation in politics organized by the office of the First Lady in collaboration with the Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Welfare.
Aregbesola who was represented by his deputy, Mrs. Titilayo Laoye-Tomori, lamented that women are always relegated to the background when it comes to allocation of position of authorities, noted that the male dominated political system must be changed for the development of the society, explaining that if our rural women are well taken care of, the society will be empowered and economy improved because they (women) constitute more than 60% of the population.
Read more at All Africa, published 25 October 2012.