{"id":35095,"date":"2011-05-16T10:35:25","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T14:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/dno\/?p=35095"},"modified":"2011-05-16T12:36:54","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T16:36:54","slug":"speaker-of-house-thinks-more-women-needed-in-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/business\/speaker-of-house-thinks-more-women-needed-in-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker of House thinks more women needed in parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_35096\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35096\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35096\" title=\"boyd-knights\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/dno\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/boyd-knights.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/boyd-knights.jpg 250w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/boyd-knights-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35096\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boyd-Knights<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dominica has failed to achieve a target of 30 percent of women in parliament, a goal parliaments around the world have set, Speaker of the House of Assembly Alix Boyd Knights has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are nowhere near that in Dominica,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Boyd-Knights, who has been speaking about the majestic role that women can play in national development, believes Dominica must \u201ckeep the momentum going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s been a survey conducted recently that is saying that in the countries where you have women in parliament and more women in leadership roles, these countries are far more developed in social terms than in the other countries where that is not the case, \u201d she stated.<\/p>\n<p>St. Lucia too, she noted, has fallen short of the 30 percent Millennium Development Goal. \u201cIt\u2019s only one woman in the Parliament,\u201d she pointed out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dominica has failed to achieve a target of 30 percent of women in parliament, a goal parliaments around the world have set, Speaker of the House of Assembly Alix Boyd Knights has revealed. \u201cWe are nowhere near that in Dominica,\u201d&#8230;","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":35096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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