The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, has called for the election of more women into political offices, not just to make up the numbers, but to ensure that the female perspective is incorporated into the policy-making process at all levels.
Ahmed, who congratulated the Society of Women in Taxation, a body representing the female members of the Chartered Institute of Taxation in Nigeria , for organising the conference, emphasised that regardless of their positions in the workplace or in the larger society, all women were critical to nation-building.
“There is widespread acknowledgement that ‘representation matters’. For this reason, it is important that more women are elected to political office, not just to tick a gender box, but to ensure that the female perspective is incorporated into the policy-making process at all levels.
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