While women in the region can vote, and are acknowledged for their role in community and low-level politics, at least two prominent women politicians in the region have insisted that the playing field is not level, and a woman’s ability to lead is still being questioned in Caribbean cultures. Among the most prominent of Bahamian women politicians, Janet Bostwick has lamented the fact that – much to her disappointment – gender inequality still pervades the Bahamas.
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