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Tuesday, July 28, 2020
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Who is knitting Europe together? 3 smart women
Forbes
By Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Three smart women leaders in their 60’s are leading Europe to a greener, more democratic future. It took 90 hours of negotiations to corral 27 leaders of member states, a couple of populist strongmen and a few frugal...
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Monday, July 27, 2020
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Eternal mothers, whores or witches: being a woman in politics in Zimbabwe
The Conversation
The political arena in Zimbabwe is a de facto male space in which women play very peripheral and insignificant roles. Author and scholar Panashe Chigumadzi sums the situation up in an op-ed article, writing that . Politics in Zimbabwe remains a man’...
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Monday, July 27, 2020
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Hong Kong elections: the shameful absence of women from politics
South China Morning Post
During these times of political polarisation and fragmentation in Hong Kong, there is one thing we can find in common across partisan lines – shutting out women from politics. The future for Hong Kong parliamentary politics is definitely not female...
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Friday, July 24, 2020
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Why female leadership is what the climate justice movement needs
Magazine
“The climate movement cannot succeed without an urgent upsurge in women’s leadership across the Global South and the Global North. Women and girls are already boldly leading on climate justice, addressing the climate crisis in ways that heal, rather...
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Friday, July 24, 2020
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‘Expect sexism’: a gender politics expert reads Julia Gillard’s Women and Leadership
The Conversation
Why are there so few women at the top levels of politics? This question is at the centre of the new book, Women and Leadership, co-authored by Australia’s first woman prime minister, Julia Gillard, and former Nigerian finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-...
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Tuesday, July 14, 2020
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Stella Creasy: “Coronavirus is like a magnifying lens on inequalities”
New States Man
She thought she had everything lined up perfectly. Stella Creasy, the Labour and Cooperative MP for Walthamstow, would get off at Green Park station and walk her seven-month-old daughter, Hettie, in the pram to Westminster. This would get Hettie to...
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Tuesday, July 14, 2020
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From New Zealand to Iceland, the femocracies that aced their coronavirus response
By Katie Strick, As the people of New Zealand prepared to go into lockdown in March, their prime minister Jacinda Ardern went live on Facebook from her sofa. “I thought I’d jump online and just check in with everyone, really, as we all prepare to...
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Thursday, July 09, 2020
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Put women at the centre of Syria crisis response
In Depth News
As the Syria crisis enters its 10th year, the situation is especially dire for women and girls, with the effects of COVID-19 compounding the risks and hardships for millions of people inside the country and for refugees around the region. Today...
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Tuesday, July 07, 2020
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The politics of pantsuits. Teen grapples with unwritten dress code for women in leadership
Kuow
For the first time in United States history, the country saw six women run for president in the 2020 election. Unlike the male candidates, the women were asked about their fashion choices. What women candidates wear plays a huge role in whether...
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Monday, July 06, 2020
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What the data really says about women leaders and the pandemic
Wired
Women leaders were more likely to crush it in the pandemic than their male counterparts. At first, few seemed to question whether this were true, though plenty debated why it would be so. Was it because of the women themselves, and their more “...
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Wednesday, July 01, 2020
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A year after Bashir’s fall, the struggle for Sudanese women continues
Wilson Center
By Reem Abbas, In a recent meeting between Sudanese women activists and members of the central committee of the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC), Sudan’s current ruling coalition, women were given myriad justifications for their exclusion from...
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Wednesday, July 01, 2020
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Women leaders and coronavirus: Look beyond stereotypes to find the secret of their success
The Conversation
Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand, Tsai Ing-Wen of Taiwan and Angela Merkel of Germany have all been singled out for the way they have handled the coronavirus pandemic. They’ve been praised for demonstrating care, empathy and a collaborative approach....
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Tuesday, June 30, 2020
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Women rise for all
UN Women
We are women leaders rising in solidarity to save lives and protect livelihoods. We call for all leaders in all countries and in all sectors to meet the human crisis of COVID-19. Stopping this pandemic and recovering from it is a shared...
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Tuesday, June 30, 2020
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‘It’s more than a seat at the table’
The New York Times
By Jennifer Medina, Senator Kamala Harris used to call it the “donkey in the room” — the (occasionally whispered) notion that she could not be the Democratic presidential nominee because it was inconceivable that she, a black woman, could win over a...
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Tuesday, June 30, 2020
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On paper but not in practice: Gender equality in balkan politics
Balkan Insight
Women have equal billing on the list of candidates for parliament fielded by North Macedonia’s ruling Social Democrats. But when North Macedonia and Croatia both vote in elections next month, how many women will actually become MPs? Fellow former...
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Monday, June 29, 2020
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Will the pandemic reshape notions of female leadership?
Harvard Business Review
Countries with women in leadership have suffered six times fewer confirmed deaths from Covid-19 than countries with governments led by men. Unsurprisingly, the media has swelled with stories of their pragmatism, prowess — and humanity. Will these...
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Monday, June 29, 2020
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Ten years since Australia got its first female prime minister, how diverse is our parliament?
SBS News
By Vivienne Pearson, On 24 June 2010, Julia Gillard was sworn in as Australia’s 27th – and first female – prime minister. But a decade on, gender equality in politics has some way to go. It’s been a rocky decade for women in politics. “I couldn’t...
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Friday, June 26, 2020
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A call to defend democracy
International Idea
The COVID-19 pandemic threatens more than the lives and the livelihoods of people throughout the world. It is also a political crisis that threatens the future of liberal democracy. Authoritarian regimes, not surprisingly, are using the crisis to...
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