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Turkana has never elected a woman over a man in any position and 2017 may not be different. Even when women are running against each other for affirmative action seats they face obstacles that male candidates do not. Many of these incidents may not amount to criminal acts but they destabilize the momentum of women\u2019s candidacy and infringe on their rights. Jecinta Abenyo, running for Women\u2019s Representative at the National Assembly as an independent candidate in Turkana County, tells us about some of these challenges\u003C\/em\u003E:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026#13;\n\t\u201cThe women\u2019s representative position is very competitive. My relationship with the other candidates is not good. There are so many insults \u2013 it\u2019s like we are all competing for the attention of the boss. We independent candidates get along better than the ones in parties but it\u2019s still hard.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026#13;\n\tMarried women always say, \u201cI am a complete woman\u201d when they are campaigning. I\u2019m a single mother. They tell women not to vote for me because I am not married. They do this at the \u003Cem\u003Echama\u003C\/em\u003E [round robin savings club] meetings. But usually someone will call me and tell me what is said because we all have our agents on the ground.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026#13;\n\tIt doesn\u2019t matter too much to me when they say things like this because so many women in Turkana are single mothers, and many are not single mothers by choice. So many of us are widows. Are you a widow by choice? Are you abandoned by choice? So why should a person who is coming to seek your vote despise you for being a single mother?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026#13;\n\tWomen are despised in this patriarchal society. We are less competitive, especially against men. Even women voters still prefer to vote for men. If a man came into this women\u2019s representative race, all the women would vote for him! Turkana has never elected a woman [over a man]. All the women are nominated and I don\u2019t expect any of the women running against men to go through.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026#13;\n\tIf you\u2019re going into politics, get ready to be abused. Any position you vie for as a woman leads people to ask questions about your social life. Have you been drinking? Have you been smoking? But they never discuss the same of men.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026#13;\n\tA man is accepted the way he is as a leader, but when they meet with a woman they scrutinize her character\u201d.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\u003C\/div\u003E\n","settings":null}]