NECA’s
Network of Entrepreneurial Women (NNEW), in collaboration with a coalition of
women associations, has called on the Federal Government to address gender
equality and increase the number of women to participate at the forthcoming
national conference.
Speaking
with newsmen in Lagos yesterday, NNEW’s 1st Vice President and head
of the advocacy committee, Fayo Williams, regretted that of the 492 delegates,
only about 72 or 14.6 per cent would be women.
According to her, “the list excludes some critical interest groups where
women are significantly represented, especially the entrepreneurs and women in
the rural areas, who do not belong to any formal group.
“All
effort must be made to ensure that the delegates structure is designed to
foster adequate involvement as prescribed by the 1995 African Charter for
Popular Participation in Development and Transformation.
“Since
the conference is geared towards charting a new future for Nigeria and women
constitute more than half of its population, the women demand equal
representation of men and women or at the very least, 35 per cent
representation.”
By Adeniyi Idowu Adunola
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