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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I would like to echo the good work that is being done by the First Lady. She took a very bold step to attend to the issue of child healthcare and mothers during delivery. I know that we have the traditional birth attendants who have their role in some of our remote areas where health workers may not be able to reach. Unfortunately, some of their methods are now becoming outdated. They need to be in-serviced in terms of experience on the new methodology of handling women. The psychological thinking of women and men has changed immensely because of the impacts of social dimensions and difficulties, poverty and loss of family members in a very rapid succession. These are issues that we cannot run away from. We are more educated today and that is why a conference of this nature is able to take more time to look and take stock of what is happening in the area of gender. I was in Rwanda and saw that the gender parity is in favour of women than men. I feel that the men are an endangered species in Rwanda. However, they have given us a model and we should try as much as possible to achieve it. Even when we were creating this Constitution in 2010, we realized that in Kenya, it may not be possible to achieve gender parity in that rapid succession. We should understand that in some areas it will be easy to achieve the gender parity, while in others it will take a bit of time. This is because we have to educate somebody in the interior of Samburu, for instance, on why a lady should lead. That is an important social element that we need to attend to. We cannot just wish it away. Similarly, in Kisii for a long time it has been a taboo for women to be elected to any position. It is only recently that we have begun to see women being elected to offices reluctantly. This is because the preponderance of young people now is more than the elderly people who have fixed minds and ideas. That is why women are now being elected to Parliament. I think that the society is loosening up in a better way. We must put a caution where we are loosening up. That caution of the natural and normal respect for one another in society is gone. It is no longer easy. For instance, in the past, your neighbours would have disciplined your child if they saw him or her doing something wrong. The child would gladly accept to be disciplined by them. However, these days, even parents, are unable to discipline their children. Today, we have children who have are engaged in anti-social activities which are not good for this nation. As a developing nation, we must have a working population which must respect each other whether male or female. It must be a population that understands each other. However, it is unacceptable for a developing population to have wayward social elements. That is where there is a point of convergence and synergy. As we support them in this progression, we should also know that there is another element on the other side that we need to bring together so that this nation can move forward. This afternoon, as I was coming from lunch, I saw a restaurant in town that I have never seen before. My aid told me that there is a drinking place upstairs and I asked him who goes there. He told me that is where the young people drink all day long. That is an acceptable because young people have a lot of energy. If someone wants to save money, they should entrust it to a woman because they will save it. If you give it to your young son, they will say that you got that money for free and so they will spend it with less care. However, that does not mean that you discriminate against the boy-child. We should take them together as individuals and teach them values of the society. We have put values in our Constitution, but we have not 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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