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Friday, August 17, 2018
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When the resistance meets the polls: A historic week for women politicians
The New York Times
By Maya Salam, Yes, that’s the sound of glass shattering ahead of the midterm elections. And female candidates are stomping through the wreckage. It’s been an election year already dominated by a surge of women, and a record number of L.G.B.T....
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Tuesday, August 14, 2018
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Michigan’s all-female ticket may mark the start of something different
The Washington Post
This year, Democrats in Michigan have done something unprecedented. They have selected women to be their standard-bearers for every statewide office on the November ballot: governor, U.S. senator, attorney general and secretary of state. Which is...
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Friday, August 10, 2018
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Electing more women would change congress (but not make it more bipartisan)
NPR
By Danielle Kurtzleben, In October of 2013, the federal government shut down for 16 days — the third longest shutdown in history. A few women in particular came together to end the gridlock, including Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins and...
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Wednesday, August 08, 2018
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Women just broke a record: The most female nominees for governor in a single year
The Washington Post
By Amber Phillips, Nowhere is there a stronger gender disparity in U.S. politics than in governor’s mansions. Right now there are a grand total of six female governors. Tuesday may go down as a day that helps change that dismal number. Primary...
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Friday, July 27, 2018
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Armenia needs more women in politics, but what will it take?
Armenian Weekly
“A woman’s place is in the revolution” read signs carried by countless young protesters who helped oust Armenia’s autocratic President Serge Sarkisian. (For many of Armenia’s female political activists, the ruling Republican regime embodied the ...
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Friday, July 13, 2018
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Women's rights in Tunisia: Could first female mayor signal democratic change?
Deutsche Welle
By Wesley Dockery, Last week, the Tunisian capital elected Souad Abderrahim its first female mayor in the first city elections since the Arab Spring. Could her victory signify a new direction for Tunisia's formerly Islamist Ennahda party? Tunisia...
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Friday, July 06, 2018
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African women more active in politics in some countries than others
Herald Zimbabwe
By Erin Accampo Hern  Women are less likely than men to participate in politics in Africa. This gender gap affects everything from attending community meetings to contacting elected officials, joining others to raise public issues, expressing a...
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Monday, July 02, 2018
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In Zimbabwe, the enduring fear of single women
NY Times
By Panashe Chigumadzi When Zimbabwe holds general elections on July 30, its first after the ouster of Robert Mugabe in November, only four of the 23 presidential candidates will be women. The opposition to President Emmerson Mnangagwa is marred by...
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Wednesday, June 27, 2018
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Dearth of female Nigerian leaders
Punch
It is nothing short of scandalous for there not to be a single female governor of any state in this country, let alone a major party leader or a serious Presidential contender of any political hue. Political parties are awash with so-called “women...
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Friday, June 08, 2018
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The women running in the midterms during the Trump era
newyorker
By Margaret Talbot, Four hundred and seventy-two women have entered the race for the House this year, which is a lot of women. Fifty-seven women have filed or are likely to file their candidacies for the Senate. A useful comparison is to 2012, which...
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Wednesday, June 06, 2018
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It may be slow progress, but women will keep fighting for political influence
The Guardian
By Jane Dudman, Every year, at the annual conference of global female political leaders, there is a group photo. It’s a heartwarming moment, when hundreds of elected politicians from almost every country in the world stand and smile for the camera....
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Wednesday, June 06, 2018
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Women running for office brings necessary change to American politics
The East Carolinian
By Blessing Aghimien, From the Women’s March to the #MeToo movement, the world has seen a culture shift when it comes to women demanding respect from those in charge. Now, hundreds of women across the country are embarking on a new challenge —...
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Friday, June 01, 2018
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US: Will 2018’s ‘pink wave’ of female candidates make it in Congress?
The Washington Post
By Amanda Clayton and Pär Zetterberg, Articles about the “pink wave” — the record number of women who have entered midterm congressional races — are appearing regularly in top media outlets. And as this month’s primaries in Pennsylvania suggest,...
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Thursday, May 31, 2018
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Why are Asia’s women politicians facing a backlash?
The Conversation
By Shan-Jan Sarah Liu, In the global struggle to get more women into high political office, one of the more hopeful fronts is Asia. Taiwan recently celebrated two years of its first female president, Tsai Ing-Wen, and its national legislature...
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Friday, May 25, 2018
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A woman takes on Ireland’s old boy’s club
The New York Times
By Shawn McCreesh, On a misty Monday morning in the city’s north end, I am sipping coffee — not the Irish kind — with Mary Lou McDonald, the new president of Sinn Fein and the most exciting person in politics here today. At 5 foot 4, this fast-...
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Monday, May 14, 2018
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Empty women seats in parliament
Tribune
By Shehnila Zardari Women may account for half of the world’s population but their representation in parliament was recorded in 2015 at only 22.1%. Two decades earlier, the United Nations’ Fourth World Conference on Women had unanimously signed the...
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Friday, May 04, 2018
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After a century of women’s votes what about political seats?
Irish Times
This year marks the centenary of the Representation of the People Act 1918 which gave the vote to all British and Irish men over 21 and women over 30 who met minimum property or education qualifications. Gender was no longer an absolute barrier to...
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Friday, April 27, 2018
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Mentoring the next global generation of women leaders
By Carine Guidicelli and Betty-Ann Heggie All around the world, from corporate boardrooms to community kitchens, parliaments to classrooms, conversations concerning the rights and empowerment of women and girls are taking place. This is good news,...
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