Only 6.3% of all international leaders are women.
They smile for the camera – the eager new cohort of female parliamentarians. It’s a standard photo, after a general election. A sign, hopefully, of progress.
This paper highlights the importance of conducting gender audits of national budgets. It describes the concept of gender audits, provides a list of questions to guide a gender audit, and examines the situation of women with respect to the economy.
What are the criteria that make a parliament gender-sensitive? Which parliaments are more gender-sensitive than others? How can your parliament become more gender-sensitive? Answers in this short video.
Women are more politically
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern accepted her landslide reelection win Saturday with a message for her country and the rest of
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida appointed a record-tying five women to ministerial posts in his Cabinet reshuffle on Wednesday, as well as one to a key position in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, as he aims to increase female executives in politics
Barring any surprises, Mexico will elect its first ever female president next year.
From unwanted advice about having kids to unrealistic expectations for fundraising, Reps. Terri Sewell and Veronica Escobar talk about the obstacles faced by women who run for office.
By Cynthia Richie Terrell
Women leaders were more likely to
By Nicholas Kristof,
Are female leaders better at fighting a pandemic?
By Sarah Yerkes and Shannon Mckeown.
Twenty years ago, the U.S. ranked 48th internationally for women’s representation. In 2021, we will rank 70th—that’s a sizable drop. But it doesn’t have to be like this.
I’ve worked at parliament for three different MPs over five years. For the first time, I’m now working for a woman MP, and the kind of messages sent to her online are shocking.
By Julie Kohler anb Rakeen Mabud,
By Jill Filipovic,
By James Kirkup,
By Maya Salam,
Let’s not sugar coat it, last week was a demoralising and often disturbing time to be a woman in Australian politics.
When the United Nations commemorated ‘International Day of Women in Diplomacy’ last week, the President of the General Assembly (PGA) Csaba Kőrösi rightly pointed out the woeful absence of women to hold that position in the UN hierarchy.
This poster was a part of media campaign held by women in the 2003 elections in Jordan. It says "When Women Win, the Country Wins".
By Caitlin Moscatello,
By Nina Montagu-Smith
The 20th Chinese Communist Party National Congress, held in October 2022, caught the world’s attention—not least because there wasn’t a single woman among the politburo’s 24 members, breaking a tradition of two decades.
As the country gears up for fiercely controversial polls in October, what are the prospects for women’s political participation in Pakistan?
The research had three main objectives: first, to obtain a more detailed picture of the situation regarding women’s political participation in the CARICOM countries; second, to identify contextual factors and analyse how they affect the presence of C
