There are many reasons why women do not participate in the different levels of society. They are preoccupied with care: of husbands, children, step children, mothers, in laws, grandmother, and every one else you can think of.
Senator Ekaette
It is fair to assume, therefore, that the women who have smashed the glass ceilings, as it were, or merely cracked it even, would go out of their way to ensure things are easier for other women?
Because, far more than being preoccupied by care, women are shackled by societal and so called cultural boundaries put up sometimes, and unfortunately, by other women.
So it was a bit of a surprise when senator Eme Ekaette came to be on the forefront of those calling for increased women’s participation in politics; mainly as it stands to reason that women are mainly kept from politics and public service by the artificial boundaries set by men as well as women.
One such boundary was the one Senator Ekaette tried to set with her dead indecent dressing bill, that was to prescribe mainly to mature females how much skin they are permitted by law to expose.
Thank God it met a natural demise. If women can not even dress as they wish, how can they swim in the murky water of Nigerian politics?
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