{"id":19050,"date":"2012-03-09T11:41:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T16:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=19050"},"modified":"2012-03-09T11:41:43","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T16:41:43","slug":"pm-continues-to-seek-equality-for-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/03\/pm-continues-to-seek-equality-for-women","title":{"rendered":"PM Continues To Seek Equality For Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_19053\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19053\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19053\" title=\"women-luncheon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/women-luncheon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/women-luncheon.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/women-luncheon-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19053\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Kyle Smith, TNG<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Celebrating International Women\u2019s Day yesterday, Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham held a special luncheon for the nine Free National Movement (FNM) female candidates in the upcoming general election and pledged to continue to fight for equality between men and women in The Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve always believed that women ought to be equal to men in all respects,\u201d said Ingraham at the Poop Deck west restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere ought to be no discrimination against women in any form whatsoever,\u201d he told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd in government and in Parliament I\u2019ve sought to advance that cause.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe still have a couple challenges to overcome, but we made tremendous progress over the years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a referendum in 2002, Bahamians were asked to vote for a change to the constitution to eradicate language that discriminates against women.<\/p>\n<p>However, the majority of voters, including women, voted against the changes, something Ingraham noted at the time \u2018shocked\u2019 him.<\/p>\n<p>Ingraham said yesterday that for as long as he is in public life he will continue to fight for equality of the sexes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a special luncheon celebrating International Women\u2019s Day, the prime minister stated that he will continue to seek equality for women in the Bahamas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[168,120],"class_list":["post-19050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-politics-2","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}