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PNG sisterhood – wherefore art thou?

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By PNG Echo. On International Women’s Day yesterday the media were invited to a business women’s breakfast at the Gateway Hotel, Port Moresby. Their purpose was to promote publicly the achievements of these women. Do a little bragging on their behalf, if you like. Under the circumstances, you’d expect that they’d be welcomed and treated with the respect they deserve, wouldn’t you? But no, with breathtaking disdain there was absolutely nothing there to accommodate media (most of whom were female) and a request by one journalist for a glass of water was refused as the waitpeople fell over the reporters Continue reading PNG sisterhood – wherefore art thou?→

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Raising the status of women in Papua New Guinea

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By PNG Echo. Was she joking? She said that she didn’t think political parties should be forced, by law, to drag women into parliament against their will. It conjures up pictures of cave men dragging women screaming by the hair into the Haus Tambaran à la Fred Flintstone. Delilah Gore, Honourable Minister for Religion, Youth and Community Development and Member of Parliament for Sohe, was commenting on proposed legislative changes before Parliament that would require political parties to ensure that 10 per cent of their candidates endorsed for national elections were women. Does she really think that there aren’t any Continue reading Raising the status of women in Papua New Guinea→

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