First lady Jeanette Kagame celebrates with her fellow women
March, 8th every year, is an international
women’s day where the whole world takes a time to reflect on how a woman is treated
and how her rights are preserved. And in Rwanda as the country that has leadership which cares for them, we take a
whole month to glance at women's past life and look together obstructions that constraint them in their everyday life.
Not only unity and reconciliation, technology and
development that Rwanda achieved after the 1990s liberation war but also
today’s Rwanda leadership brought a new mindset that women can also perform as
their husbands in all sectors. As a result, in Rwanda women are involved in
politics, health, and education,...in order to participate in growing this
progress that we are proud of today.
Speaking to CNN in 2010, President Paul Kagame
insisted that government recognizes women as a factor of development and that
to shut them out development is not a wise decision.
‘’in our
case, fifty three percent of population are women, you can’t just shut them out
of economic development and think that is very wise [….] second is an issue of
rights I think why women shouldn’t enjoy same rights in education, to be in
business, in decision making like anybody else; so this is our decision and our
choice.’’ he said.
Rwanda is ranked the first country worldwide that has more
women in parliament. Women are found doing jobs like constructing, mechanics
that were said to be jobs of men and now days we have women ministers, engineers,
mayors, governors, And beyond of that
they can compete for presidential seat as Dr Alvera Mukabaramba did in 2003
presidential election.
The World Economic
Forum (WEF) Global Gender Gap report 2014, looked at how nations
distribute political participation, economic resources and opportunities,
access to healthcare and education, between women and men. The report acknowledged
that, globally, the gender gap is narrowing.
Business is not yet for men only
Rwandans also should
know that this doesn’t come for free;
this is a result of complimenting each other between authorities and people(men and women); so this is a
big task to do in every country. It needs
a visionary leader like president Paul Kagame who knows what is better for his
citizens whose good governance doesn’t work only for men, who succeeded to
empower women from city to rule areas where their role was to cook and care for
children but now they are soldiers, police women, trading companies owners and
they also fly airplanes,
In 23 years since RPF-Inkotanyi took power, he faced
more problems such as home violation, rape, unexpected pregnancies and more
girls’ school dropouts that all were hindrances that restrained women
development but today President Paul Kagame’s
good governance is hailed to overcome those society challenging issues
and now Rwandans are classified among the happiest citizens in the world.
Despite this success, Rwandans of both sexes should
know that the battle is not yet ended, the gender equality war has finished but
we still have a development war to fight without taking care of noisy so called
politicians who cooks stories sitting overseas about Rwanda in order to abort
our vision and destabilize the country.
By concluding, Rwandans should recognize that those
people are haters that want to blow away our spirit of loving the nation in order
to destroy our achievements. And they should know that the only one leader who can
lead and fit their expectations is President Paul Kagame. Who changed Kigali
into the smartest city and who targets Rwanda to become Singapore of African
continent in 2050.
Our foreign affairs minister is a woman