{"id":47234,"date":"2022-08-08T10:19:09","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T01:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/08\/shouldering-the-weight-of-four-million-women-png-elects-its-first-female-mp-in-a-decade"},"modified":"2022-08-08T10:19:09","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T01:19:09","slug":"shouldering-the-weight-of-four-million-women-png-elects-its-first-female-mp-in-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47234","title":{"rendered":"Shouldering the weight of four million women: PNG elects its first female MP in a decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rufina Peter is just the eighth woman elected in Papua New Guinea. But the economist has been battling for her place in society since she was a child<\/p>\n<p>The celebrations when news broke that Rufina Peter had been elected governor of Papua New Guinea\u2019s Central Province had a particular sweetness.<\/p>\n<p>Not only had she won a bruising, exhausting and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/22\/dozens-killed-and-thousands-displaced-in-election-fighting-in-papua-new-guinea-un-says\">at times dangerous campaign<\/a>, but she would be the first woman elected to her country\u2019s parliament in a decade. She will be just the eighth female MP in the country\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/08\/shouldering-the-weight-of-four-million-women-png-elects-its-first-female-mp-in-a-decade\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rufina Peter is just the eighth woman elected in Papua New Guinea. But the economist has been battling for her place in society since she was a childThe celebrations when news broke that Rufina Peter had been elected governor of Papua New Guinea\u2019s Cent&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":280,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,874,267,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/280"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47235,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47234\/revisions\/47235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}