မၛႝဳရအဵ။ ႏူကုႝအစ႘အဇန္ ေပါ့ကတ္ ဒို႕အသံပ႙ုတံ ဒုင္တၜဳင္ဏာရအဵ။ အဲမိဝံသမြန္ရ။ ပႜဲကႝုကဿိန္ဍဳင္ဗဿာပ႙ုဏံဂွ္ က႑ပေရင္ဍဳင္ကြာန္ဂွ္ ညးၿဗဵတံပါလုပ္ေအာန္မံင္ဏီရ။ ပႜဲကႝုေပါဲ႐ုဲမာဲအၾကာ သှာံ ၂၀၁၈ ဂွ္ေတာ္အာကုႝ လဿိဟ္ညးစှးလုပ္ၿပိဳင္မာဲေဏာင္ဟုီေတွ္ လဿိဟ္အလံင္အမာတ္ မှိဟ္ၿဗဵတံ ၁၀ တဿံကၜံ ဓဝ္ရပါလုပ္မံင္ေဏာင္ဂြံတီေကတ္အတိုင္လိက္ဒုင္စ႘ေရင္ရ။ ပႜဲကႝုသတၲဟဏံဂွ္ေတွ္ ဒို႕အသံတံ ပံင္ေတာဲကႝု ဌာန္ပရိုင္မန္ (Mon News Agency) တဲု ပႜဲကုႝေကၜာန္ပေရင္ဍဳင္ကြာန္ဂွ္ ညးၿဗဵတံဂြံပါလုပ္ ကၜဳင္မာန္ဂွ္ ဗုီလုႝဂြံကုႝျဇဟတ္ေထက္ေရာဂွ္ ဆုႝဂဗတက္က်ာကုႝ ညးၿဗဵေကၜာန္မံင္ပေရင္ဍဳင္ကြာန္လၛႝဳတံရ။ စပ္ကုႝပ႐ူပရာဏံတုဲ တၛဲယးဂတးေတံေတွ္ ပ႙ုပတိုန္ထၞးကုႝေဏာင္တုဲ ၾသဝ္မင္ကလင္ေကတ္ႏူကုႝအစ႘အဇန္ဒို႕အသံပ႙ုမြဲဝါညိဂွ္ ဘိက္ပဿိင္ဏာရအဵ။

Across Myanmar, female involvement in politics remains strikingly low, with one report published last year finding that the number of female candidates running in the 2018 by-elections was less than 10 percent of the total.

This week, in partnership with Mon New Agency, Doh Athan speaks to some of those women involved in politics in southeastern Myanmar and asks what more can be done to encourage more females to take an active role.