So much further to go Dame Janet reflects on women’s empowerment as she is named for prestigious regional award Dame Janet Bostwick. The greatest regret in the political life of Dame Janet Bostwick, the first woman member of Parliament in The Bahamas, is that The Bahamas constitution was not amended to eliminate discriminatory provisions to achieve true gender equality. To this day, the children born to all Bahamian women, no matter where and no matter the mothers’ marital status, do not have an automatic right to Bahamian citizenship. We discussed the matter with Dame Janet, coincidentally, on the fifth anniversary of the failed 2016 constitutional referendum brought by the Christie administration.