Hontiveros stresses need for women leaders in gov’t to ensure ‘true’ gender equality

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Senator Risa Hontiveros has emphasized the need for women leaders at the policy-making level to ensure “true” gender equality during the recent Global Conference of Parliamentarians on Population and Development in Tokyo.

“We shouldn’t just stop at passing laws for our women, we should make it our responsibility to ensure that more women are also in leadership positions, more women who intimately know the lived experiences of being a woman,” Hontiveros, who represented the Philippines in the conference, said.

At the conference, Hontiveros shared several experiences of women during the COVID-19 pandemic, which she said had exposed the social inequalities that exacerbated the gaps and challenges facing women’s rights and gender equality in the Philippines.

 

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