Gwendoline Etonde Burnley

Gwendoline Etonde Burnley, born Martin (1932-2020) was a Cameroonian politician and development consultant.

[1] She was the first woman Cameroonian from West of the Mungo to become a Member of Parliament in the Cameroon National Assembly, and was MP from 1969 to 1988.

[1] Burnley was nominated as the women's representative in the West Cameroon House of Assembly: I was teaching, then, in Kumba, I think.

Drafted to the new assembly as the only woman in 1969, she spent four terms there and left in 1988, by which time the number of women parliamentarians had risen to 17.

In 2012 she criticized the lack of continued progress in increasing female representation in Cameroon's National Assembly.