The poll for the Presidential election and two other posts of local government - Governorate and District in Yemen is all set to kick off from Wednesday, but unfortunately, the number of women voters exceeds the number of women candidates running for the election.
Alert citizens and women activist are blaming the big bosses of the political parties behind this drastic drop of women contestants. This isn’t an unknown fact that the party leaders are good at orator skills, but when it comes to implementing the issues they enters their mouse holes.
This is exactly what is happening with the party leaders in Yemen, who are doing nothing for the emancipation of women. As against 18,760 men who are running for the posts there is just a handful of 137 women who are braving the race for the posts at the local level.
Not everyone is happy with this sudden fall of women leaders and many have openly demonstrated a protest march, where they demanded that at least 15 % of the seats should be reserved exclusively for women.
Nevertheless, despite the clamor, there is not much development happening in this quarter and it is upon the party leaders from the opposite sex to provide equal opportunities to the female counterparts.
Via: ALERTNET
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Boohooo, no women in the parties,
what is this child’s play? if a women wants to stay home take care of their homes, should they now be considred repressed?
whats wrong with this website...even in USA, there r very few women in politics, no one wants to get their hands dirty in such things, especially emergin democratic system, they suck
hah! you should see what the majority of Yemeni men call the women that go to college? poor girls have a hard time getting married after they go to college or work. If they want to get married they got to do it before working or college which is why now almost every wedding party invitation I get in Yemen is for a 15 to 16 year old girl. Yemeni men want their women fresh and untouched by any society. Too bad! But god knows? maybe american men think the same?