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Source: The Christian Science Monitor
Wednesday, June 14, 2023
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Why Mexico may beat the USA in having a woman president
Christian Science Monitor
The mayor of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum, resigned this week in order to run for president. She is already the leading contender, which, if she wins next year, means Mexico would beat the United States in having its first female president. Yet as...
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Wednesday, November 06, 2019
Academic Paper / Article
Women to the rescue: The gendered effects of public discontent on legislative nominations in Latin America
Sage Journals
Political parties act as gatekeepers, meaning that improvements in the representation of women depend on parties’ willingness to nominate women candidates. Previous research suggests that party characteristics and gender quotas largely explain women...
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Monday, August 19, 2019
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Women, power, & changing face of political representation in Latin America & the Caribbean
IPS News
By Luis Felipe López-Calva, Gender inequality is about power asymmetries. In the late 1970s, Robert Putnam reflected on the status of women in policy decisions in his comparative study on political elites. Quoting Elizabeth Vallance, he concluded...
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Friday, July 26, 2019
Report / White Paper
Where are the women? A Study of Women, Politics, Parliaments and Equality in the CARICOM Countries
UNDP
The research had three main objectives: first, to obtain a more detailed picture of the situation regarding women’s political participation in the CARICOM countries; second, to identify contextual factors and analyse how they affect the presence of...
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Friday, April 12, 2019
WPL Latin America and the Caribbean regional meeting at Concordia Americas Summit 2019
Women Political Leaders (WPL)  will be hosting the WPL Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Meeting in Bogotá, Colombia on May 14th 2019. Invitees are female politicians from Latin America and the Caribbean, and the participation is by personal...
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Monday, November 12, 2018
Women and Power. Days of political leadership. Connecting struggles and territories
Landed in the 21st century, the century of feminization, If you do a quick search on the Internet of "political leadership" you'll see rows and rows of middle-aged men (or masculinised icons) in a suit with a tie game. Women account for a tiny 3% in...
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Tuesday, March 14, 2017
Women’s political participation in Latin America: some progress and many challenges
By Pilar Tello Rozas and Carolina Floru Over the last two decades, important regulatory progress has been made in Latin America on the promotion of women’s political participation. 16 of the 18 Latin American countries have implemented affirmative...
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Wednesday, June 01, 2016
Webinar of the Working Group on the Protocol of San Salvador
Members of the Working Group, as well as representatives of civil society organizations and academia will evaluate lessons learned and assess the results of the First Round of National Reports on the Protocol of San Salvador. This online event is...
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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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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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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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Thursday, October 30, 2014
Women voters likely to decide Georgia elections
This year’s midterm election seems all about the women. More campaign ads than ever feature women or focus on women’s issues. It’s a strategy that makes sense when you consider there are 29,426 registered female voters in Athens-Clarke County alone...
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Pueblos Indigenas
Sunday, September 21, 2014
World Conference on Indigenous Peoples and Indigenous Youth 2014
The United Nations General Assembly is one of the main deliberative organ policymaking and representative organ of the United Nations, is integrated by 193 Member States. The General Assembly meets in regular session each year from September to...
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Friday, September 12, 2014
Data and Statistics
Women in Government
This wonderful infographic summarizes all the relevant data on women in all branches of government as well as legislation in place for women's political participation from around the world.
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Atlas of Electoral Gender Quotas
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Women and democracy in Latin America: time for parties to make a difference
Latin America has made considerable progress increasing political representation of women, but more active measures are needed to increase outcomes. With an average of 23.9% in 2014, the proportion of women in lower houses of parliament or single-...
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