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Alejandra Massolo
Submitted by Anonymous User on Wed, 2009-07-29 12:18
Alejandra Massolo is a consultant on gender equality and local governance issues. Ms. Massolo is an associate researcher at the Interdisciplinary Group on Women, Work, and Poverty (GIMTRAP) in Mexico and a member of the Women’s Network and Habitat of Latin America. She holds a Master’s degree in Sociology from the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). She has been a tenured professor in the Department of Sociology and a visiting professor for the graduate studies in Planning and Urban Politics Political at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana de Mexico (UAM). Ms. Massolo has also been a supervisor and an advisor on the projects of the Program for Financing Research and Scholarships, which is a part of the Interdisciplinary Program for Women’s Studies (PIEM) of Mexico’s El Colegio. She is an external supervisor for the Program “Political Participation and Decentralization” at the Peruvian Women’s Center Flora Tristán. Additionally, she has directed the workshops on Local Governance and Municipal Management, and Gender’s Perspective in Municipal Public Policies held by the National Association of local authorities (Regidoras, Síndicas) and Mayors of El Salvador (ANDRYSAS) and presented on the Latin America’s Panorama for Women’s Participation in Elected Municipal Positions and Positive Actions in Municipal Management at the ANDRYSAS’s Third Congress in El Salvador. She is the author of numerous publications.
Amal Sabbagh
Submitted by Anonymous User on Wed, 2009-07-29 12:23
Dr. Amal Sabbagh is currently an independent consultant on gender issues in the Arab region with a focus on women in politics and gender mainstreaming. Dr. Sabbagh was the Secretary General of the Jordanian National Commission for Women. She has held positions within the Ministry of Social Development in Jordan and was Director of the Regional Centre for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development in the Near East (CARDNE). Her government agency was responsible for recommending legislative and policy initiatives that empower women.
Amanda Sloat
Submitted by Anonymous User on Wed, 2009-07-29 12:24
Amanda Sloat was a senior program officer with the National Democratic Institute. For three years before joining NDI in 2005, Amanda worked as a research fellow with the Institute of Governance at Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland.
Following the successful preparation of a 1.2 million euro grant application from the European Union, she served as academic coordinator of a 12-country research project on Enlargement, Gender and Governance: The Civic and Political Participation and Representation of Women in Central and Eastern Europe. During this period, she traveled extensively in Central and Eastern Europe and held visiting fellowships at the Academy of Sciences in the Czech Republic, the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, and New York University Law School.
Before her work at Queen’s University, she served as a specialist advisor to the Scottish Parliament's European Committee, the Northern Ireland Assembly's Committee for Finance and Personnel, and the European Commission team preparing the White Paper on European Governance.
Amanda completed her PhD in Politics at the University of Edinburgh and her BA in Political Theory from James Madison College at Michigan State University. She has published a book (Scotland in Europe: A Study of Multi-Level Governance) and several journal articles on women’s political participation.
Amy Mazur
Submitted by Anonymous User on Wed, 2009-07-29 12:20
Amy Mazur
Amy Mazur is Associate Professor of Political Science and Criminal Justice at Washington State University and co-convener of the Research Network on Gender Politics and the State. Professor Mazur is the author or editor of four books, including Gender Bias and the State and most recently, Theorizing Feminist Policy.
She has published articles in Political Research Quarterly, French Politics and Society, Policy Studies Journal, West European Politics, European Journal of Political Research, and Contemporary French Civilization.
Anne McLellan
Submitted by Anonymous User on Wed, 2009-07-29 12:19
Anne McLellan
The Honorable A. Anne McLellan served as Deputy Prime Minister of Canada and as the first Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness in the government of the Rt. Hon. Paul Martin from 2003-2006.
Ms. McLellan also held numerous ministerial positions in Canada such as Minister of Health (January 2002 – December 2003), Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada (June 1997 – January 2002) and Minister of Natural Resources and Federal Interlocutor for Métis and Non-Status Indians (November 1993 – June 1997). She also served four terms as the Liberal Member of Parliament for Edmonton Centre from October 25, 1993 – January 23, 2006.
On May 12, 2006 Ms. McLellan was appointed Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the University of Alberta in the newly established Institute for United States Policy Studies. Ms. Anne McLellan holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Law degree from Dalhousie University and a Master of Laws degree from King's College, University of London. Ms McLellan was admitted to the Bar of Nova Scotia in 1976.
Audrey McLaughlin
Submitted by Anonymous User on Wed, 2009-07-29 12:18
Audrey McLaughlin
Audrey McLaughlin was the Federal Member of Parliament for the Yukon from 1987-1997, she served as Leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada from 1989-1995, the first woman elected to lead a federal party in Canada. She retired from politics in 1997.
Before entering politics, Audrey had a number of careers as a farmer, social worker, teacher, small business operator, and community worker. She has a Masters Degree in Social Work from the University of Toronto and an honorary doctorate from the same university, awarded in 1995.
In 1999, she was awarded an Honorary Senior Fellowship from Renison College, University of Waterloo. In 2003, Ms. McLaughlin was awarded an honorary degree from the University of British Columbia. In 2004, she received the Order of Canada. In addition to the publication of a number of articles, her book “A Woman’s Place, My Life and Politics” was published in 1992. In 2005, she was appointed, by the Prime Minister, to the National Roundtable on the Economy and Environment (Canada).
Audrey was born in Ontario, Canada and moved to the Yukon, Canada in 1979 where she currently resides. She has two children and two grandchildren.
Babette Kabak
Submitted by Anonymous User on Wed, 2009-07-29 12:14
Babette Kabak was born New York, NY and has a BA from the University of Pittsburgh, PA. Ms. Kabak who is married and has two children lived in South Africa for most of her life. While living in South Africa, she worked as a freelance copywriter and journalist for a few years, but spent most of her time as a volunteer lobbyist for women's legal rights. In 1976, she co-convened the Women's Legal Status Committee and monitored all legislation affecting South African women of all ethnic groups. She made numerous submissions to the South African Law Commission and the Wiehahn Commission (labor) to amend laws & introduce legislation on marriage, divorce, employment, health & abortion. In 1991co-founded The Women's Lobby to lobby for women's inclusion in negotiations between the South African Government and African National Congress and to promote women in politics. In 2003, Ms. Kabak sponsored a Conference on International Conflict Resolution at the University of Pittsburgh with an emphasis on the inclusion of women as negotiators. She returned to South Africa in 2004 returned to assist in the writing and editing of \"Ahead of Their Time\" - History of the Women's Legal Status Committee and The Women's Lobby. She also sponsored distribution to approximately 300 universities libraries in the US, South Africa, and Europe. In 2005-06, Ms. Kabak sponsored the Kabak Fellowship in Conflict Resolution for MA students at University of Pittsburgh.
Barbara Norrander
Submitted by Anonymous User on Wed, 2009-07-29 12:21
Barbara Norrander
Barbara Norrander is Professor of Political Science at the University of Arizona. She studies gender differences in public opinion and voting behavior. In particular, she has investigated the gender gap in partisanship and issue positions. Professor Norrander also investigates factors influencing the election of women to public office, with special emphasis on explaining the election of women to the 50 U.S. state legislatures.
Beyond her work on gender and politics, Professor Norrander also conducts research on public attitudes on a variety of social issues, the link between public opinion and policies in the U.S. states, and the nomination of candidates for the U.S. presidency.
Beatriz Llanos
Submitted by Anonymous User on Wed, 2009-07-29 12:16
Beatriz Llanos, a lawyer and journalist, has served as International IDEA’s coordinator of training and dialogue and coordinator of gender and politics projects in Peru. Dr. Llanos is currently a consultant on political communication and women’s participation in politics. She has written numerous newspaper and magazine articles and is co-author of Del dicho al hecho: Manual de buenas prácticas para la participación de mujeres en los partidos políticos latinoamericanos (in press), International IDEA, 2008; 30 Years of Democracy: Riding the Wave? Women’s Political Participation in Latin America, International IDEA, 2008; and Cuota, sistema electoral y prácticas partidarias: Claves de los avances y barreras a la participación política de la mujer en la región andina (unpublished), 2007.
Catherine Mabobori
Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Tue, 2011-08-16 03:14
Catherine Mabobori
Ms. Mabobori is a Member of Parliament in Burundi since 2004. In August 2000, she joined Parliament as a member of civil society because participation in parliament was extended to civil society representatives. Once in parliament, she joined the political party Unite pour le Progres National (UPRONA).
In 1996, Ms. Mabobori was appointed to the Office of the Prime Minister as in charge of communication and external relations, and in 1998, to the Office of the Vice President with the same duties.
