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    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "he will not, but when it becomes remunerative, he gives it a very fancy name called ‘chef”. You will find that all the chefs are men. So, if you find anything that has monetary implication, the men will re-baptise it and take over. I am very happy today because we are recognising the capability of women. Yesterday, I had the occasion of being interviewed by somebody who was asking me about the history of the women movement. I said in spite of the fact that we have challenges and we might ask whether we still have a movement, there are certain things that we can be proud of as a country. This is one of the things that we can be proud of. In the last 10 or 20 years, every time there was an appointment, you would be hearing ‘this is the first woman’. Unfortunately, even this one is the first woman chairperson of such a commission. However, they are becoming fewer. The more we hear of the first woman chair in this or that commission, the better for us as women because it means we are being mainstreamed in the running of the affairs of our society. How wonderful it is when we will be talking about the first woman president, the first woman deputy president and first woman chief justice. The first woman Deputy Chief Justice of this country was sent home on nose-pinching charges yet we see men getting away with worse things. That is why I am telling you that the gender war is still a long way to go. Even when you talk about the women movement, we still have a long way to go even though we have made strides. I am very happy. We served with Hon. Kajuju in this Parliament and I do not want to over exalt her the way Hon. Kaluma did. When she was in this House, we used to call her the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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