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Arab Reform Initiative
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
Case Study
Women’s Experiences of Representation and Marginalization in Morocco
Arab Reform Initiative
Introduction The trajectories of and challenges to women’s political participation in Morocco are complex. This complexity can be better understood by unpacking three dimensions for the analysis: the legal reforms, party structures, and women’s...
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Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Youth Marci Ien rises during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa in October 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
Academic Paper / Article
Women in politics: To run or not to run?
The Conversation
Despite progress towards gender equality, women’s representation in Canadian politics continues to fall short. With only 30 per cent of seats in the House of Commons held by women, there is still a long way to go for Parliament to capture the...
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Rebbeca Yei Kamara
Monday, April 17, 2023
Interviews
Rebbeca Yei Kamara
Hon Rebecca Yei Kamara was a teenage mother who later became a social worker with a BA in Community Development Studies. She is the first woman to become a Parliamentarian in her District, and is among the few women that were appointed as Deputy...
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Source: MSNBC
Monday, April 10, 2023
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
United States of America: this is how we can drastically increase the number of women in politics
MSNBC
At first glance, statistics paint a rosy picture about women in U.S. politics. Kamala Harris is our country’s first female vice president. There’s a record number of women serving in governorships and in the U.S. House. And there’s been a steady...
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Purra obtained 42,589 votes by herself and became the most popular female candidate in the country in 75 years. [EPA-EFE/KIMMO BRANDT]
Friday, April 07, 2023
Finnish elections dominated by women
Euractiv
Even though the Finnish elections were won by a male, women dominated Finland’s general election that took place on Sunday, with the most successful candidates being female. The winner of the election is Peterri Orpo from the National Coalition...
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The election candidates promotional posters on the side of the road in Kirkkojärvi, Espoo on the 20th of March 2023. LEHTIKUVA
Saturday, April 01, 2023
Women account for 42.9% of candidates in 2023 Finnish Parliamentary Elections
Helsinki Times
The proportion of women among the candidates for the 2023 Finnish parliamentary elections is higher than ever before, according to a press release from the Finnish Statistics Centre. Women now account for 42.9% of candidates, which is 0.9 percentage...
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iKNOW Politics
Monday, March 27, 2023
Multimedia
The Prelaunch event of International IDEA’s Inclusion Portal at CSW67
International IDEA hosted a CSW67 side-event to prelaunch the Inclusion Portal on 13 March 2023 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The Inclusion Portal will be an online one-stop repository and hub of global information that solely...
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Source: The World Economic Forum
Friday, February 17, 2023
Here are 4 parliaments that have more women than men
World Economic Forum
There was much celebration last year when for the first time in New Zealand’s history there were more women in parliament than men. Soraya Peke-Mason from the liberal Labour Party was sworn in to Parliament in October, 2022, tipping the balance to...
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CNN
Tuesday, February 07, 2023
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Why there are more Republican women in Congress than ever before
CNN
(CNN) — Lori Chavez-DeRemer sat in the gallery of the House nearly two decades ago with her mom and her twin daughters – tourists peering down at lawmakers on the floor of the chamber. “I’d really love to be here someday,” the Oregon Republican...
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The Kathmandu Post
Monday, February 06, 2023
Nepal: Landmark bill to boost women candidacy in polls
The Kathmandu Post
Election Commission is drafting a bill to increase women’s candidacy in all three tiers of government by a third. At least one third of the elected representatives in the federal parliament must be women, as per the Constitution of Nepal. The...
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APSR
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
Academic Paper / Article
Can’t we all just get along? How women MPs can ameliorate affective polarization in Western publics
Cambridge University Press
Abstract Concern over partisan resentment and hostility has increased across Western democracies. Despite growing attention to affective polarization, existing research fails to ask whether who serves in office affects mass-level interparty...
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Preventing electoral violence with UN Under Secretary General Rosemary DiCarlo
Friday, December 16, 2022
Multimedia
Preventing electoral violence with UN Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo
United Nations
The United Nations have launched the DPPA Electoral Series, a new initiative to commemorate the 10th anniversary of our training course on political approaches to preventing and responding to election-related violence. In the inaugural video, Under-...
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Posters in Tunis for candidates running in the Tunisian national election on Saturday 17 December. Photograph: Fethi Belaid/AFP/Getty Images
Friday, December 16, 2022
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Tunisia election set to deliver male-dominated parliament and erosion of women’s rights
The Guardian
As the country goes to the polls, reforms introduced by hardline president Kais Saied have led to the exclusion of female candidates. Tunisian will vote on Saturday in an election that will lead to a weakened parliament “almost exclusively dominated...
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WA Premier Mark McGowan has named Sabine Winton as one of two additions to his cabinet. (Facebook: Sabine Winton )
Friday, December 16, 2022
Australia: Mark McGowan's new cabinet takes shape, with Jackie Jarvis and Sabine Winton joining ranks
ABC
First-term MP Jackie Jarvis and Wanneroo MP Sabine Winton have been elevated to Mark McGowan's WA cabinet. They will take the places of retiring party veteran Alannah MacTiernan and outgoing Water Minister Dave Kelly, who announced last week he...
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Listening to women in politics: New report by UN Women and UN ESCWA tells the stories of 7 trailblazing Lebanese women in politics who have broken ‘glass ceilings’ - Photo: UN Women Lebanon / UN ESCWA
Thursday, December 15, 2022
Listening to women in politics: New report by UN Women and UN ESCWA tells the stories of 7 trailblazing Lebanese women in politics who have broken ‘glass ceilings’
UN Women
Beirut, 12 December 2022 – Today, UN Women and ESCWA jointly launched a report on women’s political participation entitled “Women at the Table: Insights from Lebanese Women in Politics”. The report analyses a set of seven in-depth interviews with...
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Lynda Tabuya says she wants to use her popularity to promote more women to enter Fijian politics. (Mick Tsikas/AAP PHOTOS)
Wednesday, December 14, 2022
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Fight to get Fijian women in politics
The Singleton Argus
Fijian women remain severely under-represented in politics. Only one in six of the more than 340 candidates putting their hand up for this month's election are women, a significant drop in the proportion of women since the previous poll in 2018....
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WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 17: International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Monday, December 12, 2022
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
From Christine Lagarde to Giorgia Meloni: The most powerful women in politics in 2022
Forbes
Nearly a quarter of the leaders on the 2022 Forbes List Of The World’s Most Powerful Women play a major role in politics and policy at a time when rising inflation, supply chain disruptions, and a looming climate crisis threaten geopolitical...
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BJP's Reena Kashyap (Picture The Indian Express)
Friday, December 09, 2022
Himachal Pradesh: Every second voter a female, but only one woman MLA
The Indian Express
In the November 12 Himachal Pradesh assembly elections, the performance of women candidates was dismal and only one out of 24 in the fray was elected. The new 68-member Himachal Pradesh Assembly will have just one woman MLA — BJP’s Reena Kashyap who...
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