A symposium on women's access to spheres of decision-making

In commemoration of International Women's Day, the spiritual city hosted a meeting on gender parity.The Fès-Saïss Association organised a symposium last Saturday at the spiritual city's Congress Palace on the theme "Moroccan women and access to spheres of decision-making", in commemoration of International Women's Day celebrated on 8 March. The Minister of Solidarity, Women, Family and Social Development, Bassima Hakkaoui, who was honoured on this occasion for her work in favour of women, deplored the inequity of international reports regarding Morocco in terms of poverty indices and human and women's rights.She assured that the parity rates between the two sexes in Morocco were very encouraging, rising from 10 to 17% in terms of women's representation in Parliament, from 2.2 to 12% in the House of Councillors, from 34 to 39% in the civil service and from 16 to 29% in terms of women's a…