In many countries, the adoption of party quotas, either voluntarily or due to a legislative requirement, has become very popular in the last few decades. This enables them come out to the public and communicate effectively with them and consequently getting recognition from the public and taking up decision making position. The implementation of gender quotas, however, is not the only tool used by political parties to advance women in politics.
In conclusion, in order to have a great percentage of women participation in politics, it is important for there to be laws that are placing so much emphasis on women participation in politics. Besides, women should come to the public through social media and firmly speak their goals and intentions for the State using all possible resources they may have.
This year, the theme for the commemoration of the Women’s Day is “Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world”. In 2000, in an attempt to ensure gender parity, the Federal Government formulated a national gender policy on women sequel to the Beijing Declaration Platform for Action of 1995.
The level of abuse and threatening language levelled at high profile women in the public domain and on social media are a more recent but now ubiquitous problem which is both alarming and unacceptable. The statistics in respect of the membership of the National Assembly reveal a lopsided membership of the National Assembly in favour of men. No woman has ever become a president or a vice president in Nigeria.
RepresentWomen CynthiaRTerrell We must make the Senate vote on ERA the hill the Filibuster dies on. In a real democracy we have the votes in the Senate. In a real democracy a minority of Senators should not stop the majority of Americans from having equal rights. RepresentWomen CABlueBlaze ERACoalition