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    "id": 945218,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/945218/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiambu CWR, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Gathoni Wamuchomba",
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        "legal_name": "Gathoni Wamuchomba",
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    "content": "we say that women are part of special interest groups, as a scholar, I want to say something which is a bit controversial, but is the truth. Women are the majority when it comes to the Kenyan population, but it is not convincing enough that even with the huge population, women do not occupy many political leadership slots. That is a problem without a name. Historically, we had a feminist called Betty Friedan who wrote a very popular book known as: The Problem That Has No Name . This was during the women’s suffrage movement in the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States of America (USA). She said that women were many and they provided labour in the plantations and upcoming industries and could not vote. She started a movement that gave women the right to vote. In Kenya, we have so many women in our backyards. In fact, they are the majority of the population, but they have not achieved the political threshold that we would expect from them. We still cannot identify one single problem that makes women not to occupy the spaces. Therefore, I say this is a problem we have not been able to identify by name. Please allow me to ask the Chair of the Committee that has done this work to try and give women more cushion especially when it comes to the names and branding we give them in political leadership. Like I said, I am a victim. Women are not supposed to know anything in politics and this is the cultural lenses through which we see them. When you speak loudly and boldly like some of us do, we are called names. I am a victim and I do not shy away from saying what I know or believe in. With the backlash that I get sometimes, I am ready for it because I know if I do not do it, there are women who have aspired to become what I have become with my little achievements, but they are kept off because of the kind of attacks we are receiving. With those very many remarks, please, allow me to support and congratulate the team for the wonderful and amazing work they have done. Thank you."
}