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"content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, you have seen the Victorian dress, it was even imported into Uganda at Busitu; that long dress that the Baganda women wear. That was imported from England as the conservatism of the Victorian England, where women were expected to dress completely up to the bottom so that their beautiful legs are not seen by men. However, it was Stuart Mill who championed the liberation of women. I am making this point because the liberation of women is not just a women’s affair. Men have been at the forefront of the women liberation struggle. In this country, some of us in the previous Parliaments – I remember in the 1990s and 2000s – were called honorary women because of the stand that we took in the liberation struggle for women in this country. I join hands with my two Senator friends that this is not something to be left for women. The women struggle in not a women’s affair. It is part and parcel of the democratic struggle in this nation. Democratization will not be complete without the full liberation of women and children, because the trouble with male chauvinism is that it is an ideology that stunts development both for men and women. As His Excellency the late Nyerere once said, you cannot be a complete man if you do not have a complete woman next to you. Calling women the best part of men, my best partner or my other half is not truly complete. For a man who is liberated, the woman is either your equal half, not just the other half. Mr. Speaker Sir, let me use another image that hon. Raila Amolo Odinga has always used: when you go to a race, and you decide to put your wife on your back to win that race, and another man decides to run with his wife on his side, the likelihood is that the man who goes to the race with his wife on his side will win, than the other man who bears his wife on his back because he must insist that, “ this is my other half.” The image of the liberation of women is that of human beings who in this Century must play an equally important role in the development and advancement of our nations. Finally, Mr. Speaker Sir, you can see that in the United States of America, they are finally going to have a woman president, Madam Hilary Clinton. It is not by chance. There seems to be a historical logic in what is happening in the US. First, the y elect an African American, which then frees their psychology of male patriarchy, which is part of racism in the US, that people of African American descent can become president. Once that was done, the psychology of oppression that is present in male chauvinism and inherent in racism was hit a blow, and finally Americans can think freer to elect a woman as president. It is extremely important that we unleash the energies of our women to participate, not only in politics, but in all public affairs. Let us not forget that those who have studied the political economy of rural life will give you evidence and facts that, productivity in rural life especially in agriculture, is largely borne by women. This is because women play two roles: one, they are productive in agriculture and other economic activities, but they are also the same people who ensure that the family is reproduced, not just physically, that women give birth to children, but in the sense that the family economy without the woman cannot be a live economy. She is the one who makes sure that there is food and security in the household, by taking care of both the men and children. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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