Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post

More than 500,000 votes. That’s how many ballots were cast for the top two candidates in Monday’s mayoral byelection.

Reproductive health organizations and advocacy groups say one-time emergency grants have ended and individual and foundation giving has dropped off this year.

Let’s not sugar coat it, last week was a demoralising and often disturbing time to be a woman in Australian politics.

The UN Women and UNDP in South Sudan have launched a three-year programme to enhance women’s political participation and leadership.

Sexual harassment complaints in parliament are dealt with too slowly and opaquely, the chair of the Commons equalities committee has said, after concerns were raised over a former Downing Street special adviser.

The inauguration of  legislative assemblies in the states and at the federal level has been completed.  The data is in and it shows that less Nigerian women were elected into the legislature at all levels.

It wasn’t the landslide win some had predicted but it’s a seismic shift in Toronto politics all the same with Olivia Chow elected to lead Canada’s largest city on Monday, marking a political comeback nearly a decade in the making.

Zimbabwe is set to hold its general elections on August 23, nut no women will be on the ballot for the presidential race.

So many political issues, from debates over abortion and school curriculum materials to budget cuts, are framed as attacks on “women” as a group, and polls and statistics showing that women’s votes lean left are usually cited as evidence for the idea