benefiting all women black and white many of the members here would know that when we arrived at parliament in nineteen ninety four even the inscriptions on the toilets read members wives not members so it showed that the women who used to come to this parliament were not members the anc and its government including its own youth league have a clear policy on women’s participation and representation in their decision making structures at all levels that is why president zuma was not shy to appoint a woman as the governor of the reserve bank