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    "id": 1028640,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1028640/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Molo, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kuria Kimani",
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        "legal_name": "Francis Kuria Kimani",
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    "content": "have that thinking that a woman can only be to a level of a secretary. I am not saying being a secretary is bad, but there is a way as a society we have put women that shows that they are supposed to only do particular jobs. This needs to end. How do we achieve that? It is not just putting on paper like we are doing today, but change of heart as a country, community and as a nation. When we have places where we can employ people of different gender, do we do that? As Members of Parliament, what is the composition of our parliamentary staff? In your constituencies, what is the composition of your staff? We can put all these things on paper, but it is going to take goodwill to make sure that whichever gender we pick on, we give them opportunities and we do not discriminate which gender they come from. It is quite a shame that women and especially young girls still have to struggle with matters of menstrual health. It is such an embarrassment that we hear tales of young girls using mattresses and all manner of things. If you go to some of these public offices, you find packets of condoms displayed for free in the toilets and yet basic things like sanitary towels are not available to the people. Every year, it becomes an audit query even when the Government plans to support girls with sanitary towels. It becomes an audit query every year. If we cannot give our young girls sanitary towels, how can we pride ourselves as a nation? How can we even have a gender discussion? How can we even go to these conventions and say how much we have achieved in gender parity in this country? This issue must be put to rest. I saw the proposal on the BBI that suggests that the issue of menstrual health and provision of sanitary towels should be free to every school-going child in this country."
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