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Women Suffrage
Monday, April 27, 2015
We women must vote or be ignored
On February 6, 1918, a select group gained suffrage but it took 10 more years before all women had the same voting rights as men. Yet at the last election, in 2010, more than nine million women didn’t use that hard-won right. As we approach polling...
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Women's political participation in Latin America
Monday, April 27, 2015
Webinar Series Helping Latinas to "Step Into the Political Power," Improve the Number of Women in Politics
The newly launched webinar series created by VoteRunLead and LatinasRepresent has taken on the brave and worthy task of helping Latinas to "step into the political power."  Only 32 percent of the 104 women serving in the 114th U.S. Congress are...
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Monday, March 30, 2015
IV Youth Forum (Foro de Jóvenes de las Américas)
This year the youth of the region will be the stars of the Youth Forum of the Americas as social actors, within the framework of the Summit of the Americas. The IV Forum to be held during the 8th and April 9th, is the official event of the VII...
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Women’s International League of Peace
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
You Can Thank the Feminist Movement for Being a Historic Pillar of America's Peace Movement
My grandmother, Lola Maverick Lloyd, was among 47 American feminists who sailed to the Netherlands in April of 1915 in hopes of stopping World War One.  She and her peers were answering the call of a Dutch physician, Aletta Jacobs, who pleaded with...
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Sunday, February 22, 2015
Political violence against women: a hemispheric challenge
The inter-american commission of women (cim) seeks to place political violence against women as the first topic in the hemispheric debate. Research shows that increased visibility of this violence has paralleled the raising participation of women in...
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Monday, February 16, 2015
Call for proposals-Inter-American Development Bank
The Inter-American Development Bank’s (IDB) Program for the Support of Women’s Leadership and Representation(PROLEAD) announces a call for proposals for evaluations that analyze the effectiveness of interventions that promote women’s voice and...
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She ran She won
Thursday, February 12, 2015
Multimedia
She ran she won: identifying and overcoming obstacles to getting elected to parliament
iKNOW Politics has compiled video testimonies from women parliamentarians from all over the globe to create this video on identifying and overcoming obstacles that women women face when seeking election to parliament.
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Women in the USA
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Women and politics: Slow growth in all but a few towns
While women in southern New Jersey government agree they haven’t shattered the glass ceiling in politics, fewer of them are getting headaches from bumping up against it these days and several have broken through to achieve historic firsts.   At the...
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Monday, December 15, 2014
Women could hold key to vote in 2016, USA
 than 50 percent of votes in the 2016 presidential election will be women and more than 50 percent of those women are likely to vote for the Democratic nominee. Those facts are a major reason why Democrats have won four of the past six presidential...
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Friday, December 12, 2014
Women don't run? USA
An interest in the gender gap between the representations of female candidates in U.S. elections compared to their male counterparts led two University of Pittsburgh professors to take the issue into the laboratory for three years of research....
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Monday, December 01, 2014
Interviews
Megan Leslie, NDP deputy leader, Canada
Justin Trudeau’s ejection of two Liberal MPs from his caucus—over allegations of sexual harassment of two anonymous NDP MPs—has unnerved Ottawa. If you need proof, you need look no further than MP Peter Goldring’s now-retracted comments about...
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Friday, November 07, 2014
The media aren’t holding female candidates back
Tuesday’s elections brought a number of firsts for women in American politics. Iowans for the first time sent a woman, Joni Ernst, to Congress. Mia Love became the first African American Republican woman to win a congressional seat. And next year,...
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Friday, November 07, 2014
Despite trailblazing victories by women, many girls reluctant to enter politics
 The midterm elections brought landmark victories for female candidates. North country voters elected the first female sheriff in New York and the youngest female congresswoman in U.S. history. Yet even with more women than ever sitting in positions...
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Friday, November 07, 2014
Meet Elise Stefanik, the Youngest Woman Ever Elected to Congress
Republican Elise Stefanik has become the youngest woman elected to Congress in history, winning her race against Aaron Woolf in New York's 21st open district 56-32, ABC News projects. She's the first Republican to win the district, which had been...
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Friday, November 07, 2014
The Most Female Congress Ever Will Be Terrible for Women
For the first time, Congress will have 100 women in office, thanks to Tuesday’s midterm elections. And of the three state-based initiatives that would have restricted women’s access to abortion, two—the “personhood” measures in Colorado and North...
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Wednesday, November 05, 2014
There Are 100 Women in Congress for the First Time Ever
The gender breakdown of the next Congress is still to be determined, but a major milestone was reached Tuesday night: For the first time in American history, the number of women sitting in Congress will hit triple digits. Democrat Alma Adams of...
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Friday, October 31, 2014
The Unfinished Agenda: New England Women's Policy Conference
  Register Now!   Friday, November 7, 2014 9 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Reception to follow 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.   John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Columbia Point, Boston, MA Join women and men from across the...
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Thursday, October 30, 2014
Why is Fashion Such an Important Issue for Women in Power?
The recently-opened exhibit at the Design Museum in London titled “Women Fashion Power” says a lot about how society tends to care more about how female politicians dress than it does about males. While sometimes there’s a correlation between a...
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