Zambia: Days of Male Domination Numbered

After the last tripartite elections in 2006, there was an outcry mostly from civil society over the low levels of women's representation but this year the situation looks brighter.
  • Zambia:   Days of Male Domination Numbered

    IPS, 18 March 2011

    Elizabeth Phiri was so incensed when she was overlooked as a parliamentary candidate for the Patriotic Front in a 2008 by-election on the basis of her gender that she quit the… Read more »

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