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Women’s presence in other positions and legislatures remains low. While timely data and statistics on women in executive positions at a global level are not readily available, information from 2005 showed women holding only 14 percent of government posts. Women’s participation at the local level is another important field of entry into politics. Experience shows that women are quite active at the local level and are making an impact, although global comparative figures are not widely available.

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India:DMK to train women cadres in governance

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Mon, 2010-03-15 15:06
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As the bill reserving one-third of seats in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies awaits to be passed by parliament, Tamil Nadu's ruling DMK party is planning to hold camps across the state to empower its women cadres in governance.

"We plan to train DMK party women in various aspects of governance. We want to groom our party women so that they are ready as and when the 33 percent reservation for women comes into effect," Kanimozhi, party Rajya Sabha member and daughter of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.Karunanidhi, said.

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Empowering Parliaments through the Use of ICTs

The study, published by the United Nations Development Programme, has developed an analytical framework that focuses on the three core functions of Parliaments - legislation, representation and oversight - and establishes links between them. It provides concrete examples of the importance of ICTs for the empowerment and increased credibility of parliamentary institutions.

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Assessing Legislation - A manual for legislators

It aims at providing the legislators with the necessary tools that would help them in assessing legislations and proposing them to promote social and democratic change in their countries. The guide highlights and discusses several important topics such as the role of the legislator in facilitating socio-political and economic change, the legislative theory, and the methodology for problem solving, in addition to assessing the technical sufficiency for the proposed law.

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Angola: Percentage of women in Angolan parliament meets international standard

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Fri, 2010-03-05 09:23
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The number of women in the Angolan National Assembly repre sents 39 per cent of the total number of parliamentarians in the country and the figure meets the world's established quota, according to a report from the Angolan News Agency (ANGOP).

The was revealed Thursday in New York, US, by the Angolan MP, Faustina Fernandes Inglês de Almeida Alves, while addressing the 1-12 March Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) meeting, as part of the 54th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women which began Monday at UN headquarters.

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MENA: Gap Lingers Between Women's Political and Legal Rights

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Wed, 2010-03-03 11:58
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The 591-page study released by Freedom House on Wednesday, supported through grants by the U.N. Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), contends that while women in the region suffer from greater inequality than women elsewhere, they now enjoy greater economic opportunities, access to education, and increased participation in the political process than in years before.
"There are more women entrepreneurs, more women doctors, more women PhDs, and more women in universities, than ever before," said Jennifer Windsor, executive director of Freedom House. "However, substantial roadblocks remain for women pursuing careers. These findings remind us of the complexities of women's status in the Middle East."

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Chile: First Woman President Scores Points on Gender Front

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Tue, 2010-03-02 08:36
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At the end of her term on Mar. 11, Michelle Bachelet will be stepping down with a tremendous level of popularity: 83 percent, a record in her country, and almost unheard of in the rest of the world.

The inauguration of rightwing President-elect Sebastián Piñera that day will close a chapter in the history of this South American country of 17 million people, governed by the centre-left coalition Concertación de Partidos por la Democracia since the return to democracy in 1990.

As a result of the gender equity policies implemented by the Bachelet administration, Chile will be the Latin American country with the most gains to show at the Mar. 1-12 meeting of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, in which governments will gather in New York for the 15-year review of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform of Action adopted in 1995 at the Fourth World Conference on Women, held in the Chinese capital.

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Myanmar: POLITICS-BURMA: Conflict Pushes Karen Women to be Village Chiefs

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Sun, 2010-02-28 21:24
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In military-ruled Burma’s Karen state, tradition and a male-dominated social order have long guaranteed men the role of village chiefs. But this order is crumbling in the country’s eastern region, giving rise to the new phenomenon of women village chiefs.

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Canada: Councillors hold seminar for women

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Fri, 2010-02-26 14:17
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Councillors Jan Harder and Marianne Wilkinson are teaming up to offer encouragement and advice by hosting a Women in Politics Campaign School on Feb. 27, aimed at providing information on how to budget, develop a platform and deliver a strong campaign message.

"I was thinking back to when I first ran for election in 1997 and I knew nothing about campaigns, the rules and asking for money," said Coun. Harder. "Women are still challenged today with being the main caretaker of the family and have also been involved extensively in the community and want to make a difference. We want to reach out to them with information that allows them to make that giant leap."

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USA: Women leaders smarter than men

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Thu, 2010-02-25 14:08
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According to Pew Research Center Social and Demographic Trends survey of 2,250 American adults conducted from June 16 to July 16, 2008, "What the public does not say is that women inherently lack what it takes to be leaders," Live Science quoted Pew analysts, as stating. "To the contrary, on seven of eight leadership traits measured in this survey, the public rates women either better than or equal to men,” they added. For example, the most important leadership trait according to the respondents is honesty. And half of all adults surveyed said women are more honest than men, while just one-in-five indicated men are more honest.

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Kenya: Minister hails women seats

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Wed, 2010-02-24 12:47
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Ms Murugi who was speaking in Nairobi during the opening of a meeting for Gender Affairs Ministers of East Africa on Wednesday also said women should contest for the other available seats in order to increase women representation to 30 percent.

“With the harmonised draft we are hoping to get the 47 seats that we have been promised but we are saying that is not even enough because it only translates to 13 percent. We are hoping that (number) can be the starting point and we want to sensitise women so that they can also vie for other seats,” she said.

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