‘Women must be involved in deciding what they want’
Experts have voiced concern over the low participation of women candidates in the upcoming national election, raising questions about how political parties' promises on women's rights can be when women themselves are largely excluded from decision-making. They also said that women should have the right to make their own decisions, at a roundtable "Gender-Sensitive Agendas in Politics," at The Business Standard (TBS) conference room in Eskaton of the capital on 5 February. TBS and the Feminist Leadership Coalition (FLC) jointly organized it, with the newspaper's Associate Editor Saleem Ahmed, in the moderation.
