Countries with women in leadership have suffered six times fewer confirmed deaths from Covid-19 than countries with governments led by men.
When Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 presidential election, it sparked a surge of female candidates. According to Rutgers Center for American Women and Politics, nearly 500 women initially filed to run for the U.S.
The Win With Women Political Party Assessment (WWW Assessment) is an initiative designed to help political parties become more inclusive and representative through an assessment that gauges men and women's perceptions of women in leadership, the type
This report includes findings and recommendations discussed at the Winning the Peace: Women’s Role in Post-Conflict Iraq conference. It describes women’s roles in rebuilding post-conflict Iraq and their participation in governance, legislature, and civil society.
This report documents some of the groundbreaking work done by projects supported by the UNIFEM Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence Against Women.
The Women and Society Research, Policy and Advocacy Centre is an independent, feminist, non-governmental and non-profit organization that works to promote women's rights at the national, regional and global level, and advocates for gender-sensitive democratization of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
WOMANKIND Worldwide works to enable women to voice their concerns and claim their rights, and to work globally for policies and practices that promote equality between men and women.
2012 represented nearly a 1 percentage-point increase in the world average (20.3%). With the exception of 2007, this is nearly double the annual rate of increase.
There is growing recognition that stable peace and national prosperity can only be achieved when institutions are democratic and representative of all groups of society.
This collaborative report between, Lokniti a programme of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung has attempted to look at women and politics from a multi-track perspective.
This article highlights opportunities and challenges for a greater participation of Ghanaian women in this year’s historic election.
This case study examines how women in the Arab Gulf region have entered the mainly male-dominated business sector. It draws on the experience of countries in the Gulf region that have tried to integrate women into chambers of commerce and industry.
When Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began, Natalia Karbowska sprang into action.
4 December 2014 –A photo exhibition "Women and conflict in Ukraine", organized by the UN Office in Ukraine together with the Ministry of Social Policy and Ukrainian Women's Fund.
This paper in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization - Volume 151 examines in what roles women have an impact on corruption by focusing on female labor force participation and their presence in the parliament.
This report concludes that women are bearing the brunt of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and that strategies to reverse its effects cannot succeed unless women and girls are empowered to reclaim their rights.
This is an executive summary of the "Women and HIV/AIDS: Confronting the Crisis" report, which concludes that women are bearing the brunt of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and that strategies to reverse its effects cannot succeed unless women and girls are empowered to reclaim their rights.
Not long after the news of Covid-19 broke around the world, it became clear that it would be a health crisis of pandemic proportions. But it also became apparent early on that there was much more at risk than health.
This report explores public attitudes about gender and leadership with a particular focus on leadership in U.S. politics and business. The analysis is based on two new Pew Research Center surveys.
Unlike the other MDGs that are to be achieved by 2015, the third MDG on gender equality and women’s empowerment was to be achieved by the year 2005 but it was not. In that sense, it is a missed goal.
This publication draws together the experiences and lessons learnt by Central American women working on promoting gender equity in local government.
This report discusses women's role in local government in India. It provides a historical background for the Panchayat Raj, or Indian village councils, and discusses women's participation in such councils.
This brochure describes some recent and ongoing OECD projects aimed at helping countries to improve their gender policies.http://www.oecd.org/gender/womenandmeninoecdcountries-brochure.htm
These statistical charts present data that can serve as an analysis of gender equality in Republika Sprska, Bosnia-Herzegovina as of 2005.
This report looks at women's potential contributions to peacebuilding from the under-explored angle of natural resources, relating the ways they use, manage, benefit from the latter to their access to participation in peacebuilding.
By Davidson Aminu,
For centuries, women’s political wings were clipped as the public sphere was deemed appropriate only for men. The occasional queen or woman warrior did emerge, but this was the exception. The rule was that men were to rule.
