Rwanda: Women in Politics - Reality Or Gimmicks?

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Kigali — The society should expect the involvement of women parliamentarians to lead to different policy and decision making. On the assumption that they can act from a different perspective from that of their male counterparts is reality.

An alternative perspective in an exclusive survey of women parliamentarians from 65 countries conducted by Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU) in 1999, the respondents consistently portrayed women as having different priorities from men.

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