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Monday, December 30, 2013
Why Gender Diversity Matters in Politics, USA
The idea that white liberal men don’t bring their own built-in biases from their own (substantially more privileged) lived experiences to politics, and are some kind of neutral group is absurd. Truly representative government requires a diversity...
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Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Where is women’s place in local government in Turkey?
Dec. 5 was the 79th anniversary of the day Turkish women were granted the right to vote and to be elected.  The confusion in the domestic and external agenda caused this gain to be celebrated less than it deserved.  Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and friends...
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Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Women and Israeli deMOCKracy
A little while back a lawsuit was filed with the Supreme Court to disallow funding of political parties that do not include women in the party list. I do not know what happened with that suit - I have not yet heard that it has been discussed or...
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Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Why the police and the Tories should beware of 'that woman' Theresa May
Yesterday I sat through three hours of evidence trying to get to the bottom of who said what at a meeting about who said what during a five minute altercation a year ago. Keeping track of the twists and turns of “plebgate” isn’t easy, so spare a...
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Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Report / White Paper
Women as Agents of Change: Advancing the Role of Women in Politics and Civil Society
There is growing recognition of the untapped capacity and talents of women and women’s leadership. In the last 10 years, the rate of women’s representation in national parliaments globally has grown from 13.1 percent at the end of 1999 to 18.6...
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Sunday, September 22, 2013
Women in politics face the ugliest of juggles, Australia
The latest round of national head-scratching about why there aren't more women in politics makes me want to poke out my own eyes with a rusty toasting fork. I'm sorry. I know everybody means well. And all the debate about parliamentary culture and...
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Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Women reluctant to run for office, New Zealand
In the year that New Zealand marks 120 years since women won the vote, the number of women vying for local body seats is stagnating. Nationally, only 30 per cent of candidates are women, a number that has been the same since 2004 after dropping from...
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Saturday, August 31, 2013
Women Encouraged To Contest National Elections, Ghana
A former PDP Women Leader, Dr Kema Chikwe, on Friday in Abuja advised women to work hard to secure positions in the party as the special convention gets underway. She explained that the purpose for the special convention was to elect new National...
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Monday, June 24, 2013
Women starting in politics get tough warnings, USA
The guest instructor in a Philadelphia University classroom got right to the point: You can do what you're thinking of doing, and you can make a difference. Just be prepared for the brutality. "It is a dirty business, there is no doubt,"...
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Wednesday, May 08, 2013
Women’s issues: Who will be fair to the fairer sex?, Pakistan
According to a 2012 survey by the World Economic Forum, Pakistan is still considered to be one of the worst places in the world to be a woman. With a total of 37 million registered female voters, the policies adopted by political parties to ensure...
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Tuesday, May 07, 2013
Women make up only a third of main parties’ candidates in B.C. election, Canada
here have been five elections in the Vancouver-area riding of Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows since the district was created in 1991 and more than two dozen candidates — but only one of them, a long-shot Marijuana party candidate in 2005, was a woman. ...
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Friday, April 19, 2013
Women activists demand higher political representation, Indonesia
Representatives of the government and the House of Representatives told a court hearing on Tuesday that the new legislative election law did not sideline women and was devised to empower them politically. They were responding to women activists’...
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Women in Politics, USA
In 2013 men still earn disproportionally more than women, on average 30% more. Men also hold the award for securing the most senior leadership posts in both business and politics. According to a 2013 report by from Center for American Women and...
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Women start political party based on Facebook comment, Japan
Two Japanese women started “All-Japan Obachan Party”, a political party that aims to balance the gender gap and to increase women rights, as well as women’s presence in the government. The party was established six months ago as the result of a...
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Friday, March 08, 2013
Women in the driver’s seat of democratic politics
Gender equality in politics is not about the system allowing women in. It is not about politics giving something to women. It is about women actively taking their rightful place as equals with men in political decision-making. It is about women...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
World: Gender Equality Prize
Candidatures for the "PACE Gender Equality Prize" may now be submitted until 1 June 2009, following extension of the deadline by the Committee. The Prize is awarded in recognition of completed or current action, schemes or initiatives by political...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Women need party support in PNG
  Women need party support in PNG   18 APRIL 2012 PORT MORESBY (NBC) ---- Lack of support from political parties has always remained a major challenge for women candidates who wish to contest national elections in Papua New Guinea...
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Women's caucuses and alliances for sustainable development
This discussion is aimed to shed light on the following questions:  1.      What strategies have women’s caucuses developed to shape national policy agendas in different thematic areas (e.g. economy, security, health, environment, education and...
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