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Posted Oct 19, 2007 9:56 AM
Commendable efforts, but this empowerment will be effective if the culture and mentality of the man folk is inured to accept and respect woman’s emergence into the political arena. Without a change in the man folk's thinking - this is an uphill battle for woman, but hey this is a good start.
http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/18/2062844.htm
Posted Thu Oct 18, 2007 11:45am AEST
Dozens of women from Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and East Timor are in Cairns in far north Queensland, learning how to become politicians.
The Australian Political Parties for Democracy program aims to increase the number of women in politics in the Asia-Pacific region.
Former politician and course conveyor Lesley Clarke says many of the women come from countries that have no, or very few, women in parliament.
"Clearly there is a human rights issue," she said.
"We are half the population and women deserve to be represented in their parliaments.
"Women bring particular perspectives to parliament from the experiences they have and there's also some very solid economic reasons why women should be there.
"You can't be a successful country if you only use half the brainpower."
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