Electoral System Needs To Be Gender Inclusive

Recently, Gender Links hosted a media training session on women’s political participation and one of the issues that the panellists identified as a hurdle was poor support of women by fellow women. The Monitor looked into the issue to establish why women appear unsupportive of each other at elections because women contest at the polls, but only a few usually win, while the rest come out empty-handed.

Women, who hold a large percentage of the country’s population, have over the years been accused and attacked for supporting men over women during elections.