Botswana: Women in Politics fight back

Shavon Pulley/Feb 23/Gender Issues
Botswana National Front (BNF) Women's Wing publicity secretary, Keneilwe Lekoba, has hailed the party leadership for taking gender issues seriously. . Gender oppression is one issue that is receiving a lot of attention from BNF leadership," said Lekoba, adding that a lot of BNF leaders are now "thinking outside the box." Gender issues have now become a component of BNF political education. The BNF is able to "analyze inequality on the basis of the tools of class theory and class oppression. Many are asking if this new thinking within the BNF help BNF women to participate in large numbers in the next general election? Many women are interested in the 2009 general election because of this movement. For sometime, women politicians across the political divide have cried that the playing field between them and their male counterparts was uneven making life difficult for women. The women want to benefit from both men and women through their seminars. BCP believes that they will be able to get women all over the country to participate fully. With the workshops and seminars, they were able to conclude that the government needs to fund all political parties to level the playing field. They feel that "We need to speak with one voice as women and pressure the government to fund political parties to level the playing field,".
I think these women getting together forming a group that directly puts the focus on them for help. Women in these other countries are always getting treated unequally and it's time for them to stick together and unite as one voice. As quoted in the article she said that although they have limitations, they would have to work very hard "as we cannot simply give up on this fight". That is a strong statement because if they continue to stick together, then taking them all down will be a hard task than just illuminating one.
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