INCREASING representation for women in parliament is important, but the legislative body should also mold its codes, ethics and practices to truly ensure equitable treatment of women, the Speaker of the National Assembly of Tanzania, Ms Anna Makinda, has said.
She made the remarks during a panel discussion on Special Gender Partnership debate session.
Ms Makinda noted that achieving equality without a legal framework was difficult and that parliaments have to be made a 'comfortable workplace' for women.
She was sharing her experience of Tanzania with the delegates of the 127 - Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Conference which is taking place in the city of Quebec, Canada The IPU, 162 member-countries, has been stressing on the need to have more women in parliaments and they both agreed that this will not be possible unless some kind of affirmative action is put in place among their August House.
Read more at All Africa, published 25 October 2012.
INCREASING representation for women in parliament is important, but the legislative body should also mold its codes, ethics and practices to truly ensure equitable treatment of women, the Speaker of the National Assembly of Tanzania, Ms Anna Makinda, has said.
She made the remarks during a panel discussion on Special Gender Partnership debate session.
Ms Makinda noted that achieving equality without a legal framework was difficult and that parliaments have to be made a 'comfortable workplace' for women.
She was sharing her experience of Tanzania with the delegates of the 127 - Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Conference which is taking place in the city of Quebec, Canada The IPU, 162 member-countries, has been stressing on the need to have more women in parliaments and they both agreed that this will not be possible unless some kind of affirmative action is put in place among their August House.
Read more at All Africa, published 25 October 2012.
