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Thursday, August 10, 2023
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Books & Arts Doing “the work that men do”
Inside Story
Labor’s Dorothy Tangney made history in 1943 when she became the first woman elected to the Australian Senate. But though she sat in that chamber for twenty-five years, no Labor woman ever joined her. Instead, she watched as the second, third,...
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Monday, July 03, 2023
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'Rage giving' prompted by the end of Roe has dropped off, abortion access groups say
WUSF Public Media
Reproductive health organizations and advocacy groups say one-time emergency grants have ended and individual and foundation giving has dropped off this year. The “ rage giving ” did not last. Abortion access groups who received a windfall of...
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Two new women MPs have been elected in Papua New Guinea, and 10 others were in the top five in the seats they contested. Image: Lesley Clark/DevPolicy
Friday, August 26, 2022
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Women – just two – back in PNG’s Parliament but more needs doing
Asia Pacific Report
The results of the 2022 Papua New Guinea elections confirm that women will once again sit in PNG’s Parliament — after a hiatus of five years. The 2022 elections were therefore not exactly a repeat of the 2017 elections for women candidates, but much...
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Students graduating from Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo, Nigeria. Credit: Rajmund Dabrowski/ANN.
Wednesday, July 06, 2022
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“We copy it from them”: How campus politics sets scene for big man politics in Nigeria
African Arguments
Nigeria has one of the lowest rates of female political representation in the world. This culture is established and reinforced early. One morning before heading to university, Esther Binkap, 21, looked at herself in the mirror and asked herself if...
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Wednesday, June 02, 2021
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The incredible rise of Samoa's first female Prime Minister-elect, and the man still standing in her way
CNN
(CNN)- Samoa's first female Prime Minister-elect has had a strange inaugural week in office. When Fiame Naomi Mata'afa turned up to the Pacific island nation's Parliament on Monday to be sworn in, she found the building locked. The 64-year-old went...
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Monday, April 19, 2021
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Covid has eroded the gender progress of the last 25 years – bodily autonomy is still a human right
The Independent
The pandemic has had a disproportionate effect on women and girls' access to sexual and reproductive health services, writes Asa Regner, Tabata Tesser and Luna A quarter of a century ago, a historic moment for the rights of women and girls took...
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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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Wednesday, November 13, 2019
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Women with a #MeToo complaint are being silenced for the sake of politics
The Guardian
By Gaby Hinsliff, Life moves fast in this general election. There seems barely time to digest one scandal before the next is upon us; disgraced candidate follows shady accusation without a break. But just occasionally, it’s worth rewinding for a...
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Tuesday, April 09, 2019
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'There needs to be more women in politics'
Whig Standard
By Meghan Balogh, Young women from every federal riding in the country took part in a historic sitting in the House of Commons last Wednesday. Caberry Yu, a second-year medical student at Queen’s University, was one of 338 women ages 18 to 23 to...
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