The Acting President, Goodluck Jonathan, should embrace the national gender policy that states reserving 35 per cent of all political appointments for women and therefore, create wider room for women to participate in governance, a woman activist and executive director of Equity Advocates, Ene Ede, has said.
“It is the greatest shock to see only very few women nominated for appointment in the new list,” Ms. Ede said. “Already, there is what some people call ‘democratic deficit’, where women have not been accorded their right of place in the polity. We should have been asked to manage at least 10 slots. And what is wrong with getting the 35 per cent prescribed by the national gender policy? Consider the services and contributions that women have rendered to make the society more comfortable.”
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The Acting President, Goodluck Jonathan, should embrace the national gender policy that states reserving 35 per cent of all political appointments for women and therefore, create wider room for women to participate in governance, a woman activist and executive director of Equity Advocates, Ene Ede, has said.
“It is the greatest shock to see only very few women nominated for appointment in the new list,” Ms. Ede said. “Already, there is what some people call ‘democratic deficit’, where women have not been accorded their right of place in the polity. We should have been asked to manage at least 10 slots. And what is wrong with getting the 35 per cent prescribed by the national gender policy? Consider the services and contributions that women have rendered to make the society more comfortable.”
To read the complete news story please visit 234next.com. Timbuktu media.