| | allAfrica.com: Southern Africa: Women Hopeful About Gender Parity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Mainstreaming women in positions of responsibility is not about affirmative action and reverse discrimination, University of Botswana (UB) lecturer Elsie Alexander has said. |
 | | It is about social justice, about the fact that we both go to school and have achievements and knowledge hence, we deserve to be treated equally," she told Mmegi. |
 | | She said the fact that Botswana did not achieve the previous 30 percent quota of women representation in positions of authority by this year as set by SADC in 1997 does not worry her. |
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