Challenges of Women Political Representation in Rwanda National Parliament.
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Date
2011-10
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Kampala International University, College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Abstract
African women’s fundamental contributions in their households, food production
systems and national economies are increasingly acknowledged, within Africa and by
the international community. This is due, in no small part, to African women’s own
energetic efforts to organize, articulate their concerns and make their voices heard.
The study entitled challenges of women political representation in Rwanda
national parliament employed the following objectives; to evaluate the level of women
political representation in parliament, examining the effectiveness of women political
representation in parliament, and identifying the factors that affect women political
representation in parliament.
Descriptive ex post-facto method was employed. It involved both qualitative and
quantitative data collection. During data analysis, the researcher used tabulation, charts
and Chi-square. Relating to evaluating the level of women political representation in
parliament, the findings show that the inequality still exists between the number of
women and men in parliament.
The study concluded that women are exemplary on the work because they
contribute more on the government policy achievement even if they are still affected by
socio-cultural, political, education, previous experiment, relevant knowledge, marital
status and economic factors.
It is recommended that, the government of Rwanda should increase the increase
the free seats of women ( at least 4O% of seats) because until now the percentage of
women are still low than the one for men. MIGEWD, should ask the government to set
new constitution which are more favorite to women. Rwandan women parliamentary
should do the proper gender advocacy in all politics level as is the one of their mission
in order to increase the number of women in all levels.
Description
A thesis presented to the School of
Postgraduate Studies and Research
Kampala International University
Kampala, Uganda.
In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree
of Masters of Public Administration.
Keywords
Women, Political, Challenges, Representation, Rwanda National Parliament