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September 13, 2021
Enough is enough. It’s time for Japan to have a female leader.
By William Pesek
Over the last 25 years, since the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action by the United Nations in 1995, the number of women parliamentarians has nearly doubled worldwide.
Report of the Expert Group Meeting held in Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia on 24 – 27 October 2005
This paper describes issues relevant to women's political participation, representation and leadership. It describes strategies to address the disparity between men and women, gender mainstreaming as a cross-cutting strategy, globalization, and women's mobilization strategies.
This year’s State of the World’s Girls report is focused on girls’ and young women’s political participation.
This article is the second in a two-part series examining the impact of gender quotas.
Equal Votes Equal Voices
IFES promotes equal rights and political participation for women around the world.
More than 2.5 billion women and girls around the world are affected in multiple ways by discriminatory laws and the lack of legal protections.
This survey collates insights from both men and women parliamentarians into the factors that shape decision making.
6 key findings on obstacles to women in politics based on a an Inter-parlimentary Union survey of Women and Men in Parliaments
This is a House of Commons Committee report, with recommendations to government. The Government has two months to respond.
Equality Now works for the protection and promotion of the human rights of women around the world.
We live in a very unequal world. Recent data suggest that the poorest 5 percent of Americans earn 35 times more than the poorest Zambians, after adjusting for relative prices (Milanovic 2011, p. 16, p. 9).
When COVID-19 started rapidly spreading throughout Europe in March, Norway was hard hit.
El artículo presenta evidencia actualizada sobre la brecha de género en la implicación, el cono- cimiento y la participación política en España y en perspectiva comparada.
When I left high school, I thought I would no longer have to worry about whether my skirt was “too short,” or – God forbid – if my shoulders were visible.
The relationship between gender and governance has too often been neglected in both theoretical and empirical work.
The essays in this volume explore the multiple factors that influence the process of engendering governance in complex societies. They focus particularly on the changing roles of various actors such as women’s movements, the state and civil society.
This consolidated response illustrates the key steps to establishing a women’s party section as recommended by iKNOW Politics Experts as well as by scholars and practitioners in this field.
This report analyzes the formulation of policy regarding human development in Estonia. It examines the extent to which good governance principles, with the basic elements of decentralization, transparency, lawfulness and participation, are followed in Estonia.
Ethiopia’s prime minister Abiy Ahmed is rewarding women’s contributions to the nation’s progress.
These guidelines are based on a solid multilateral acquis, the most recent milestones of which are the UN Secretary-General's in-depth study on all forms of violence against women (2006),
Promoting gender equality is a core activity for the EU: equality between women and men is a fundamental EU value, an EU objective and a driver for economic growth. The Union shall aim to promote equality between men and women in all its activities.
The European Journal of Politics and Gender (EJPG) is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes international, cutting-edge research in the broad field of politics and gender.
This policy paper aims to reconsider the concept of parity democracy in the current context of the EU and focusing on the elections to the EP in May 2019.
By Malgorzata Bratkrajc
The “50/50 Campaign for Democracy” of the European Women’s Lobby is a push for concrete action to increase women’s presence in politics and in the 2009 European Parliament elections.
