{"id":5392,"date":"2014-10-02T17:25:59","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T10:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5392"},"modified":"2014-10-02T17:26:17","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T10:26:17","slug":"tunisian-women-take-a-step-backwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisian-women-take-a-step-backwards\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisian women take a ‘step backwards’"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Women in Tunisia have the required self-confidence to become decision makers but what they lack are some leadership skills,” says the coach leading the non-governmental organisation workshop in the capital, Tunis, teaching them how to organise an electoral campaign.<\/p>\n

At a time when many women in the Arab world are fighting hard to promote their political rights, Tunisian women have them explicitly entrenched in their laws.
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The new constitution adopted at the beginning of this year calls for the state to strive to achieve parity between men and women in all elected bodies.<\/p>\n

But as Tunisians prepare to go to the polls next month, female candidates have been finding that words alone are not enough…<\/p>\n

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“Women in Tunisia have the required self-confidence to become decision makers but what they lack are some leadership skills,” says the coach leading the non-governmental organisation workshop in the capital, Tunis, teaching them how to organise an electoral campaign. At a time when many women in the Arab world are fighting hard to promote their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[258,256,4228,257,4694,4229,254,4703,653],"class_list":["post-5392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-leadership-skills","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-political-rights","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}