{"id":275547,"date":"2011-02-05T10:07:03","date_gmt":"2011-02-05T10:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=51084"},"modified":"2011-02-05T10:07:03","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T10:07:03","slug":"senator-ekaette-and-women-playing-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/05\/senator-ekaette-and-women-playing-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Ekaette and women playing politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_51085\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51085\" style=\"width: 245px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-51085\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/02\/05\/senator-ekaette-and-women-playing-politics\/ekaette\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51085\" title=\"EKAETTE\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/EKAETTE.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51085\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senator Ekaette<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThere 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.<br \/>\nIt 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?<br \/>\nBecause, 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.<br \/>\nSo it was a bit of a surprise  when senator Eme Ekaette came to be on  the forefront of those calling for increased women\u2019s 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.<br \/>\nOne 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.<br \/>\nThank 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?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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