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Nigeria: Politics - Still Hard for Women At the Top

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The lot of Nigerian women in the workplace has not always been pleasant. It is even more brutish in the political arena. Gender activists and other stakeholders gathered in Abuja recently to ponder their lot.

MRs. Rifkatu Samson Dannahn the only female member of the Bauchi State House of Assembly, suspended for about one year from the House by her male colleagues, was the cynosure of many eyes at the Women in Parliament summit in Abuja penultimate week.

Her circumstances were reflective of what many at the summit bewailed as the discrimination that has been the lot of many women in the political arena.

We invite our users to read the complete article published July 16 2013

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The lot of Nigerian women in the workplace has not always been pleasant. It is even more brutish in the political arena. Gender activists and other stakeholders gathered in Abuja recently to ponder their lot.

MRs. Rifkatu Samson Dannahn the only female member of the Bauchi State House of Assembly, suspended for about one year from the House by her male colleagues, was the cynosure of many eyes at the Women in Parliament summit in Abuja penultimate week.

Her circumstances were reflective of what many at the summit bewailed as the discrimination that has been the lot of many women in the political arena.

We invite our users to read the complete article published July 16 2013

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Region