The Zambian government must prove its political commitment to gender equality by implementing recommendations of the national gender policy, writes gender activist Wilcliff Sakala. "This challenge is an indication of the displeasure that women in this Southern African nation still feel at being discriminated against in many key areas of national decision-making. In Zambia, women make up nearly 52 per cent of the country’s 10 million people, but their role is negligible when it comes to determining affairs of the state. There are only two women in a Cabinet of 25 ministers and just 16 of 158 members of parliament are women."