Unfortunately, no woman will feature in the contest for the position.
We would like to think the Danny Philip led regime should have given our women the chance to take on the top job.
Don’t tell us we don’t have qualified women here.
There were a good number of them around, serving in various government and private sector roles.
With politics still a man’s domain, it’s only reasonable that the job be given to one of our qualified women.
The Government is in a strong and better position to ensure this happens.
It has the number to support a woman candidate for the job.
Besides, the Philip-led government would bring credit upon itself as the first government to fully recognise the many positive contributions women have given this nation.
It’s pretty sad the Government does not see things in that light. It instead opted to stick with the status quo.
In the country’s short political history, the job of Speaker has never been held by a woman.
With the struggle by women to be recognised as equal partners in development, there’s no better time than now to give the position to one of them.
By doing that, the government would bring a sense of gender balance to the highest decision making body of the land.
The Philip Government had missed a golden opportunity to make an impression and tell the world Solomon Islands values its women leaders.
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