Campaign to free women applies to few - Rachel Mayanja

Elite women are not doing enough to uplift the status of rural women, a former special adviser to the UN Secretary General on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women, Ms Rachael Mayanja, has said.

Speaking at the Abu Mayanja Memorial lecture in Kampala on Tuesday, Ms Mayanja said rural women are now fighting to break the ‘glass ceiling’ since the campaign to free women is applying just to a minority group, which negates the reason for the women’s movement.

She blamed the problem on the limited resources to support women’s programmes, and urged women MPs to make laws in favour of women. But Ms Veronica Nakijoba, a lecturer at Makerere University School of Gender Studies, said as educated women, they have championed some causes and argued that blame should not be heaped on elite women but rather think of how to further advance the cause.

The memorial lecture, which ran on the theme Women’s Movement: a Reality or Fallacy, is running for the fourth year.

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