In DR Congo, where women struggle against terrible violence and inequality, a committed activist fights against all the odds to give women a third of all elected posts. Known as “Maman Parite” — “Mama Parity” in English — Esperance Mawanzo hasn’t stopped to catch her breath since a hotly disputed January electoral law cancelled out President Joseph Kabila’s pledge to bring more women into politics. Maman Parite lives and works in Bukavu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where women still suffer in the wake of a savage conflict that infamously saw all sides