This was a short statement in the parliamentary session. But for Harini Amarasriya, the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, it was the moment she realized that her country was destroyed a while ago by the politics of Strongman's leaders and their populist.
As Dr. Amarasria explained him, a male colleague (and “not very feminist”) will lead the island country to formal labor, unless he officially recognizes the “Care Ceconomy”. I stood up saying I couldn't do it. For other people.
For Dr. Amarasria, listening to the government's language was “one of the biggest thrills.” “I said,” OK, all years of fighting with you have been rewarded, “she said in December interview in Colombo's office.
Two years after the Sri Lankan stood up and driven out the political dynasty, the country is in the right of a once -in -a -lifetime IN, with a political dynasty that has caused economic ruin.
The anger settled on a quieter determination for wholesale changes. Last year, for the president and parliament, for the old elite that had been governed for decades, he was decisive through the pair of last year's national election. The left wing movement has risen in that place and promises a more equal society.
As the democracy of the country recovers, women's opportunities are being held.
The woman was the driving force behind the protest, forcing Sri Lanka President to escape in July 2022. Their anger sent them as they pass.
Currently, women are at the center of efforts to provide permanent protection from the whim of strong people. Women also have a slow and steady job to form a political culture that enables equal spaces.
Women, accounting for 56 % of registered voters, were important at the end of last year due to the power of the people, the left -wing costumes with small electoral power.
The party leader, President Anra Kumala Disnayake, spent his life in the left wing politics. He has appointed a sociologist and activist, Dr. Amaraslia, as the second most influential post in the country. She is her first woman in South Asia, who was not a former top leader's wife or daughter.
In September, when she was preparing to take office, Dr. Amaraslia was nursing the cold when a reporter of the New York Times visited her house. She said that one of her four cats had given her attitude, tearing her legs when she tried to nurture her.
She was watching the political debate in the United States. I spent one year as an exchange student. “I think they are one of the” women without children “,” she said with a smile.
Dr. Amrasliya has been preaching for women that it has been more friendly to women and cannot achieve a more equal society without injecting a “feminist sensitivity” into policy decisions.
The new government has begun a policy controversy to improve wage equality and improve women's work environment. We want to raise the participation rate of women in the formal labor from 33 % to about 50 %. The ruling party has doubled the efforts to mobilize women politically in order to guarantee that this moment is not.
Dr. Amaraslia said that it was “how to think about the government, how you think about power and authority.”
Some of the initial actions include the end of politics VIP culture. Long motorcades, large -scale security details, and luxurious mansions for the Minister are gone. The president has cut the aide of his journey. Since Dr. Amarasria cooperates with only one -dozen staff, the compounds of the prime minister in which the residents are making a fuss in more than 100 staff members are now quiet like a library.
Outside the lobby leading her office, on her desk, there is a drawing drawing that schoolchild is sending her. Dr. Amraslia was shown to the blue Sari and her natural curl.
He wrote the drawing, “Auntie.” “May the Buddha Lord bless you.”
A true test becomes an economy.
It is stable, and has been strengthened by increasing tourism and reducing government expenditures after a few decades of runaway spending. But it's not outside the forest yet.
The 18 -year -old Kaveesha Maduwanthi, working in a clothing factory, is one of many people who want a new leader in the country to find ways to promote economic growth.
Madu Wanti earns about $ 100 a month. Her husband, Mason, brings almost the same amount to the house if he gets a steady job. She said that more than half of her salary was sent to the baby's formula for her one year old daughter in January. In addition, her and her husband pay the food and medicine of the grandparents who babysitter while they are working.
“We don't need to provide food to us. We can manage it somehow,” she said. “What we need is a country that has a space to earn a little extra cash so that you can invest in your daughter. Probably a pair of gold earrings on her first birthday.”
Before the presidential election last year, the power of the left -wing party spent about two years trying to mobilize a woman like Madu Wanti. Women, Dr. Amaraslia and other party leaders were looking for someone who defended the problems they felt strongly at the time.
After a female voter won Dissnayake to victory in the presidential vote, the party gained absolute majority in Congress a few weeks later. In many districts, women won affordable.
Dr. Amarasriya, who is running in Colombo, has broken the voting defended by former Prime Minister, President, War Hero, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the older brother of Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the older brother of Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
She said that the sufficient victory between Dr. Amarasriya and other women had crushed the myth that female politicians could not win. Her Party gathered money in the center and distributed it to women and male candidates to overcome the disadvantage of women facing.
The number of women in Congress has doubled. Still, the country needs to go far. Women still account for only 10 % of the members. Dissanayake's cabinet has only two women among 21 ministers.
Dr. Amarasria and other female leaders said they were disappointed with their numbers. However, he stated that the work of gender -based gender is not only numbers, but also a “constant process” that influences policy planning and daily governance, and inspired.
The party says that it focuses on focusing on women's mobilization in order to lead women to leadership with lower levels of politics. The goal is to remove the excuse for being tapped for a more prominent role.
The party has established a women's committee, exceeding 13,000 out of Sri Lanka's minimum local governance unit, 14,000 Grama Niradari.
A new committee was appointed on Sunday afternoon in the suburbs of Colombo. The organizer carried out the door to the door, collected information, and created a WhatsApp. About 100 were sitting in a plastic chair in the courtyard of the house.
Samanthamary Gnashinge, a local member of the parliament, took him to the microphone. “We were a flower bowl at the political stage,” Gnashingge said. “They throw our votes, threw us on fire, and abandoned us with the children.”
Now she said that the women's committee had created a space called “a place where they can scream together.”
