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    "content": "a woman, you have to work twice as hard to be recognized half as much.” That is how terrible it is. What we ask for, as women of this country, is not to be favoured or given something soft. We want to fight, but give us a level-playing ground. When you attack me, as my opponent, you should not look at the length of skirt or who is the father of my children. You look at what is between my ears and we can compete properly. There is the issue of neck-down politics and other appointive positions. I want to quote the Waiguru saga. The attacks on her children that we saw in the media demonstrated what women are subjected to in this country. I cannot say that she was clean, but neither were her colleagues. We never heard anything about their children. Nobody can tell you about the children of a male Cabinet Secretary who was dismissed from service; it is very difficult. But for women, their whole life is brought out. It is quite difficult and emotionally heavy to deal with. As we go for elections next year, I know that women will struggle. Some political parties are making an effort to actually give affirmative action to women. We will not leave the young people and people living with disabilities, because they are also part of it. In fact, Sen. Kanainza here is a young woman representing youth. If you at the records, less than ten percent of land is owned by women. Very few of us have title deeds and that is the reality. We hope to entrench ourselves in the political parties. I urge the women who have served on affirmative seats, to identify a constituency to run for. We will be doing this for our girls who look up to us. In fact, I think that affirmative seats and even the women representative positions should be held for one term. One should serve for one term and then look for votes in a constituency. That is the only way we can increase the number of women in Parliament. I do not want to be nominated for three consecutive terms; I will be doing an injustice to the women and girls who look up to us to actually show them that it can be done. We must encourage women to get out and vie for positions. The men who are here should encourage the women in their lives to get out there. When we need your support in terms of money, we will fundraise and hope to get favorable responses. Political parties must give us a good rate even in terms of nomination fees. Let the women pay 50 per cent of the nomination fees, so that many of them can be encourage to seek political seats and make policies. I want to recommend a book for all the leaders here, including the women. There is a book written by Sandberg, the Chief Operations Officer of Facebook, called Lean in . Everytime you go to a meeting, do not sit at the periphery. It is our time to get close to the table; otherwise you will be on the menu. I want to encourage all of us to get out there and for the men to support us, because we mean well for the country and our future. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to second the Motion."
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