What Kenya’s women politicians are up against in the upcoming polls, and other stories
#WomenLead (Issue 110): Your weekly round-up on women in politics
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In this week’s edition, we bring updates from Australia, India and Papua New Guinea and the spotlight is on Kenya.
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Quick Updates
😡 BRAZEN ENCROACHMENT: In some infuriating news from India, a video shared by a journalist showed a man taking oath as the village head (the ‘Sarpanch’) in a village in the state of Madhya Pradesh.
The travesty is that it was his wife who had been elected to the post. In India, one-third of seats of local governments are reserved for women (in some states, this share is 50%), but in a brazen encroachment of women’s rights, several men often capture power by proxy. They get their women relatives to contest, but when they win, it is these men who continue to wield power.