Daily Monitor
Tuesday March 09 2021
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The International Women’s Day is both a celebration of women’s achievements and an opportunity to assess what obstacles remain in the way of progress towards gender equality.
Uganda has a reason to celebrate, as it prides in having made interventions that have empowered women politically, economically and socially over the years.
Politically, the empowerment of women by establishment of women councils, institutionalising certain positions at parliamentary and local council leadership foras for women has enhanced and normalised women’s participation in governance.
It is, therefore, not surprising that a number of government parastatals, NGOs and private sector firms are now managed by women. The government’s policy of affirmative action has gone a long way in socio-economic empowerment of women.