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    "id": 1010019,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Baringo CWR, KANU",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Gladwell Cheruiyoit",
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        "legal_name": "Gladwell Jesire Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "At the moment, when we talk about gender issues, all the time it is about women because of the challenges and vulnerability that women have in the country and even the world. We need to remember that the challenges that we have currently, as much as women are affected, we are focusing so much on the girl-child to a point that I am starting to think we are forgetting the boy- child. Since we think gender is female, when we talk about anything gender, we talk about female. At the moment, we are taking our children back to school from the COVID-19 Pandemic. After that long period of time, you realise that everyone is looking for interventions for the girls who have dropped out of school. All of us are thinking how many girls have dropped out of schools because of pregnancies and early marriages. Still, there are boys who drop out of school because of many other issues like drugs. Some went into businesses like boda boda and they are not ready to go back to school. It is only in fairness that we look into both girls and boys when we are looking into these issues that we are looking at. I know everyone is trying to find out how many girls will not go back to school, but we need to also need to know that many boys will not go back to school. In any case, when we look at the gender parity, we realise that at the base, we mobilise girls to go back to school, prepare a good room for them, but as we grow up, at the apex, it becomes narrower for the girl and wider for the boy who was not catered for at the base. So, we have inverted issues when we are looking at gender."
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