By Avivah Wittenberg-Cox,
The Thomson Reuters Foundation carried out a survey that stated that Dhaka ranked as the seventh most dangerous megacity for women.
Romani women and girls go on to suffer from multiple forms of discrimination: not only are they Roma but they are also women.
By Nerima Wako-Ojiwa,
Student politics in our universities is a replica of our national politics.
More women were elected to Congress in 2018 than ever before, but for Congress to reach gender parity, a million women would need to run for office ac
By Eliza Anyangwe
The appointment of a woman into a position long-held by men is often believed to be a sign; a harbinger of good things to come for other women and in the fight for gender equality. But is it ever?
By Ryan Lenora Brown,
By Adriana Piatti-Crocker,
Despite studies showing widespread public acceptance of female politicians in India, women's political participation in the South Asian country remains low.
The report presents testimonies from women’s groups involved in the relief efforts which indicate that women are more vulnerable and at risk during natural disasters.
By Amanda Taub,
By Naomi Cahn,
To me, the banner story of this election season was not Joe Biden’s victory. It was the history-making of vice president-elect Kamala Harris.
This week we were supposed to be celebrating the first state visit to the White House by a Brazilian president in nearly two decades.
By Amanda Arnold,
By Cami Anderson,
MUTARE, Zimbabwe (IDN) — Cyberbullying and online sexual harassment are some dilemmas that young women trying to rise in Zimbabwe’s patriarchal and male-dominated political space face.
A century ago, Agnes Macphail was the first woman elected to the House of Commons. While female participation in federal office has increased significantly since then, women still only make up 28 per cent of Parliament today.
Journalist Ali Vitali covered female presidential candidates in 2020. Now she reflects on what got in their way.
Women urgently need to gain access to high office if the country hopes to survive, say Hilina Berhanu Degefa and Emebet Getachew.
Until the war in Tigray started in November 2020, Ethiopia was a favoured investment destination.
“The climate movement cannot succeed without an urgent upsurge in women’s leadership across the Global South and the Global North.
BIf we believed the print headlines and TV chyrons, 2019 was going to be another "year of the woman." The afterglow of the midterm elections was a nuclear wash of "women's anger" — a deep-seated sense of fear, grief, and, of course, rage at the boori
"Human rights, women's rights and gender equality are so high up on the agenda in Sweden that when you talk to people they are embarrassed that Sweden is the only Nordic country which hasn't had a woman prime minister," says Drude Dahlerup, a Swedish-Danish politics professor who has long researc
Why does the gender balance among politicians vary so substantially across different locations?
By Pavit Kaur
India has hardly ever seen a purely women-driven movement where women have been the pioneers of a development and have stood up for a cause all by themselves.
In the larger scheme of things, where global capital and politics come into the picture, tribal women’s voices are missing.
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