History of Political Empowerment of Women in Uganda

Sushma Yadav

doi:10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i02.2780

History of Political Empowerment of Women in Uganda

Author(s)	Sushma Yadav
Country	India
Abstract	This paper examines how the women’s movement in Uganda will lead to political empowerment of women. This paper investigates the role played by women in political sphere in Uganda. This paper will also focus on the struggle of women and women’s movement in politics, which has traditionally been considered as the men’s sphere. Moreover, it also investigates the conditions of women in Uganda from pre-colonial to post independence period and changes in the conditions within that time period based on the availability of secondary data. This research is done to throw light on the origin and role of women’s movement in Uganda and its achievements in terms of political empowerment of women. Available literature is insufficient to explain that whether it is due to the pressure of women’s movement that Museveni had to give space to women in politics or there were other reasons too. Using the data collected from various sources such as articles, books, Government of Uganda reports, it will find that women’s movement leads to empowerment of women in political sphere to the extent that Uganda’s quota design has set an inspiring model for other quota adopter countries in the region. In the central and eastern Africa region alone, Sudan, Burundi, South Sudan, Eritrea, Kenya, Djibouti, Zimbabwe, and Somalia have followed Uganda’s quota adoption in 1989 and reserved seat quotas were introduced in their majoritarian parliaments (Clayton, Josefsson & Wang: 2016). Hence, it was an early quota adopter country. This research would encourage the women’s movements in economic and social sphere. Because it is evident from this study that if oppressed people are aware about their rights and if they are able to organize themselves in a group to put pressure on the government for their rights then they can achieve it.
Keywords	Women’s Movement, Political Empowerment, Uganda
Field	Sociology > Education
Published In	Volume 5, Issue 2, March-April 2023
Published On	2023-04-30
Cite This	History of Political Empowerment of Women in Uganda - Sushma Yadav - IJFMR Volume 5, Issue 2, March-April 2023. DOI 10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i02.2780
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i02.2780
Short DOI	https://doi.org/gr7hd9

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