Malawi: President Joyce Banda shows that having women in key decision-making positions makes a difference

Appointing women to key decision making positions can lead to a transformation in the lives of citizens particularly women. In just three weeks after appointment as President, Joyce Banda had undertaken the following initiatives towards women’s empowerment:

– Invited the AU Gender Director to come and launchMalawi’s Decade for Women Action Plan.
– Appointed eight women to the Cabinet though this still falls far short of the 5050 target.
– Appointed a woman to the powerful position of Minister for Development.
– Appointed a woman to the position of Inspector General of Police.
– Launched an initiative on maternal health and safe motherhood, to advance girls’ education and to stop unnecessary deaths of women in childbirth.
– Pledged that she would shortly be announcing an initiative on food security.
– Had ordered all video houses to ban the use of inflammatory and degrading language towards women.
– Had launched a market women’s initiative, and would continue to learn from the market women of Liberia.
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Source: AllAfrica.com