Our PM took the podium at the International Women of Courage Awards and lauded “every brave mother who ever raised a strong daughter and helped us get here. Those women worked for more than political rights. They worked for the opportunity to hold high office but they worked for so much more. They worked to make sure that they had the right to vote the right to equal work and equal pay the right to proper services the right to physical safety.
Perhaps more important than anything else they worked for the ultimate right – and that is a right to an education. I believe it gives everybody the opportunity to shape their own lives.”