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    "id": 1009981,
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    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "id": 376,
        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
        "slug": "millie-odhiambo-mabona"
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    "content": "men. Those are the kind of things that we are saying that because of social construction, many women tend to suffer. Therefore, this policy seeks to create that balance. Earlier today, somebody sent me a very nice photo and said, Hon. Millie, this is what you go through: That when I am going through an election, the first thing that you will see is men on the queue with you, but their path is very clear. But on mine, there are so many hurdles. There is nurturing and caring roles, babies and other factors. I remember one of my colleagues here one time was rushing home for lunch to cook for the husband. One of the male colleagues was shocked and was asking how a Member of Parliament could be running home to cook for a husband. She said that it was because her husband demanded that she had to do so. It is not because there was nobody to cook in the house but because of the issues of power, control and relations that are so imbedded in the society. Such things sometimes make it very difficult for women to even rise to positions of leadership. I am glad they have anchored this on international conventions and Kenya has ratified it because our Constitution provides so under Article 26, that all treaties that are ratified by Kenya shall form part of the laws of Kenya. Therefore, if you look at various treaties including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Maputo Protocol on Women which is the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights, all have provisions relating to gender equality. Where there is no equality, we speak of equity. Equity is then an affirmative action and that is how we have 47 women coming to the House and that is where there have been historical injustices. I had requested, with your indulgence, whether I could get one or two more minutes. I do not know whether that is possible so that I know what to say or not."
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