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A member of #Kenya's Parliament was removed after walking into chambers with her 5-month-old baby.

Zuleikha Hassan, a mother of three, said she came to work with her youngest child after she was unable to find a sitter.

h/t @MissChisomo
What is this “decorum” they use to punish women in legislatures across the world? Rules made by men and for spaces that they believed would always be filled with men and now here come the women and spoil it all! Fuck decorum
She said Parliament lacks a daycare center, though it had promised to provide one in 2013.

"We are trying to encourage more women to come into politics, to come into the workspaces, to get out and help out the economy in other ways, so we have to support them," Zuleikha Hassan
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