We smiled at each other and that's when it started,'' said Ajouz. I did not have any difficulties as a woman, because I have been working for many years as a lawyer and by now people know me and have stopped looking at me as nothing else but a woman,'' she added. Although figures are contradictory as to how many women candidate actually stood, the final results of the elections are clearer, stating that 78 women won seats on the new municipal councils. Compared to the five seats women had won in the last elections before the war, the new victories are certainly an achievement, though only one percent of the total. We have a lot of capable women in Lebanon,'' said Ajouz, ''especially because they're still new to the field, they are still far away from things like bribery.
Women tend to look at things in differently.
But we all have our own way of building our country,'' she added.