It is not quite usual yet, but on more than one occasion we have echoed the assistance of a mother with her baby to parliaments around the world. Work and family reconciliation is difficult and mothers seek their strategies so as not to neglect any of them.
Therefore, we were surprised that still men continue to recriminate a woman, because as an exceptional case she has been forced to go 'to work' with her son, having no one to take care of him.
This is what happened to Zuleika Hassan, a Kenyan parliamentarian, who was forced to leave the hemicycle between shouts. As she herself pointed out: "If there was a nursery in the National Assembly, I could have left my baby there."
"A shameful attitude"
The images recorded and broadcast on the television of the Parliament of Kenya, Parliamentary Broadcasting Unit (PBU), show some parliamentary deputies shouting at the woman and others pushing her upon arrival to the plenary, both for and against her.
According to the BBC, the mother and deputy has asked the Parliament of her country to create a "family friendly environment" If you want more women to become parliamentarians.
"I tried with all my strength not to come with my 5-month-old baby, but today I had an emergency; what was I supposed to do? If the parliament had a nursery or a nursery, I could leave him there."
In Babies and more Australia will allow members of parliament to breastfeed or bottle feed their babies inside the enclosureOf the same opinion are the rest of the deputies of the Parliament, who left the chamber when they expelled Zuleika, as a sign of support and protest towards the position of some male companions, who described the attitude of the mother as "unprecedented" and " shameful. "
The expulsion is based on the regulations of the Assembly, which does not allow the entry of "strangers" in the camera, and that includes children.
A bill of 2017, forces Kenyan companies to build special rooms where mothers can breastfeed and change their babies, but the Assembly does not have a nursery, so they have to "Bring your babysitters to care for babies in Parliament while they perform their official duties".
Luckily, this macho and incomprehensible attitude is not common and several political women around the world have been photographed taking their babies to work.
The most prominent case is perhaps that of the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Arden, the first female world leader to take her baby, Neve Te Aroha, three months old, to the United Nations General Assembly in New York in 2018. A great example of leadership and conciliation.
Photos | EBRU Television Kenya screenshot
