Women quota system questioned

SOME women have described the constitutional provision that allots 60 parliamentary seats to women as flawed, arguing it is not producing the optimum intended results for real empowerment.

Speaking at an Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) Conversations on Gender Equality Progress in the New Constitution on the Women Quota yesterday, various speakers said apart from giving all the seats under the system to political parties, it was ideal to rope in experts in different fields.

Others said women were now being treated as a special group of people, who were in Parliament because of the benevolence of men and not through merit.

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