Michael Chebud ADDIS ABABA, Nov 20 2008 (IPS) - She fought alongside men in the Ethiopian liberation struggle. She fought for a free and fair society. But today, Yewubmar Asfaw feels that Ethiopia's revolution has failed to deliver a fair share of political power to women. Asfaw is determined that her new political party will not repeat previous mistakes. Credit: Michael Chebsi/IPS In her book, published this year in Amharic, Asfaw, 52, describes how the liberation groups marginalised women fighters during the struggle and after the fall of the military regime in 1991. A third of the fighters were women. Yet few of them rose to top positions in the ruling party, the Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), which pools the four rebel groups. Among the 547 members of Parliament, only 116 are women, or 22 per cent – although in 2005 the EPRDF said it would reserve 30 per cent of its lists for women. The Tigray Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF), to wh...