Rural Women Want Inclusion in Politics

By Morrison O.G. Sayon for the Inquirer

As the Presidential and General Elections draw nearer, women in rural Liberia have called on political parties to include them as decision-makers in their various manifestos. The rural women are calling on leaders of political parties to allow them occupy higher positions in political parties and in the decision-making process of the country. They want women to be party leaders as their male counterparts and not to be placed at the back seat. In Grand Bassa County, District N0, 2, some women who spoke to this paper through an IREX-sponsored program, said their inclusion in national politics will enhance the democracy process and buttress the participation of all Liberians regardless of sex as enshrined in the United Nations Convention on Discrimination.

 

“Let them allow women to occupy higher positions either as party chairman, Vice Chairman, Secretary because some of these women have qualified themselves by going to school and obtaining degrees and can do whatever men can do. We are prepared to support them in every aspect,” Ellenor Barnie in Waka Town, Grand Bassa County said.