{"id":277949,"date":"2019-06-03T22:19:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T02:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=85aa16be0ee9249b0424b7fa4067b601"},"modified":"2026-09-26T11:15:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T15:15:02","slug":"a-vancouver-panel-noted-ethiopias-first-female-president-while-early-marriage-rates-stayed-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/277949","title":{"rendered":"A Vancouver panel noted Ethiopia\u2019s first female president while early marriage rates stayed high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2019 the Vancouver Sun covered a Women Deliver panel where world leaders discussed how hard it still was to raise women\u2019s power in government, using Ethiopia as an example that symbolism and social outcomes do not always move together.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-501854\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Addis-Ababa-forced-eviction.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A Vancouver panel noted Ethiopia\u2019s first female president while early marriage rates stayed high\" \/>\n<p>The story noted that Ethiopia had its first female president, Sahle-Work Zewde, even while about 40 percent of girls still married before age 18, which kept the tension between elite representation and everyday gender harm in plain view.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as gender archive, the panel coverage dates how Ethiopia\u2019s reform-era image collided with stubborn early-marriage statistics in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/vancouversun.com\/news\/local-news\/ethiopia-has-its-first-female-president-but-40-per-cent-of-girls-still-marry-before-18\">Vancouver Sun<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia has its first female president, but 40 per cent of girls still marry before 18&nbsp;&nbsp;Vancouver SunA panel of world leaders at the Women Deliver 2019 gender-equity conference discussed challenges of increasing women in government and leade&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":501854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Addis-Ababa-forced-eviction.jpg?fit=966%2C607&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1aj3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277949"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755032,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277949\/revisions\/755032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}