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    "speaker_name": "Dr. Mwiria",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Education",
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        "legal_name": "Valerian Kilemi Mwiria",
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    "content": "I was talking about external environment in which we have to operate. I would like to say that issues of security and conflict also need to be addressed. It is much more difficult for our girls to learn effectively under those kinds of circumstances. Again, at the political level, whatever we need to do to ensure that environment is enabling, it will be much more supportive of women's education. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, we also have to address the issue of the attitudes of men. You have seen how we tend to be so protective of our own rights as men, even when it is men who can appreciate the difficulty. I am saying this because we get to situations where our men appreciate educated women--- If you go to universities, many of the male students in the universities will feel more threatened by educated female students. Many of our men in our society will sometimes feel threatened by an educated woman to the point that even very highly educated men tend to look for wives among the less educated. This is an issue that we have to address because we cannot get far or promote education for our women if we, who have that education, get threatened by those of the opposite sex who have more education like ourselves or even those who have done better. I would like to conclude by saying that we have to give this issue very serious political visibility. Just like we have highlighted the issue of HIV/AIDS and other problems, we have to bring this issue of women's participation in education to national prominence. By doing this, even the men have to be prepared to have the courage to talk about the things that they would not dare talk about. If you are an hon. Member in a community that supports FGM, you have to come out strongly and say: \"That is wrong!\" even if you stand the chance of losing votes. If you come from cultures that support kinds of systems and traditions that are oppressive, you have to have the courage as an hon. Member to talk about it. It is better to sacrifice you and save generations of our young women in the future. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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