By Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post,23 Oct 2022Despite growing voices for fair representation of women in elections, only nine percent of the total first-past-the-post (FPTP) candidates for November polls are women. The major political parties are particularly to be blamed for this sad state of affairs. The CPN-UML has fielded 11, the CPN (Maoist Centre) nine, the Nepali Congress five, and the CPN (Unified Socialist) and the Rastriya Janamorcha one woman candidate each. Two…