International women’s day: Rwanda, an example to learn

First lady Jeanette Kagame celebrates with her fellow women

March, 8^th 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