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Wednesday, September 13, 2023
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Gender mainstreaming in politics: need for an inclusive and sensitive governance
Feminism in India
Before a gathering of 3,000 women in 1927, Ambedkar said, “I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.” In the ever-evolving tapestry of human civilisation, women have historically been treated...
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Tuesday, September 12, 2023
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G20 bats for empowerment of women: where do Indian women stand?
Business Today
While G20 leaders have announced the establishment of a new working group on the empowerment of women during the Brazilian G20 Presidency, the situation for Indian women tells a different story. Despite global efforts, women in India continue to...
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Monday, September 04, 2023
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Gender equality and governance: role of women in Nigerian politics
The Sun Nigeria
For most Nigerians, the 4 per cent inclusion of women in the ministerial list of President Bola Tinubu is a step back for gender equality in Nigeria’s politics and an eye-opener of the many hurdles women encounter in occupying political roles. This...
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Tuesday, August 22, 2023
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Gender equality in politics 80 years after Australia’s first female politicians elected
Women's Agenda
Women politicians now comprise nearly half of elected politicians in Australia, according to reports from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The number of female politicians has increased from 40 per cent in 2011 to 46 per cent in the 2021...
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Thursday, August 10, 2023
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Got milk? How breastfeeding relates to politics, power, and money
Stockhead
During World Breastfeeding Week last week I was reminded of my first ever editorial, written on the topic of parenting and careers during a PR Masters. A key observation in the piece was that “having a job” and “building a family” were probably...
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Tuesday, August 08, 2023
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Gender equality: Turkish women shatter long-held taboos in leadership
Daily Sabah
Turkish women have continued to defy norms, breaking barriers in politics, business and the armed forces. These remarkable strides have shattered long-held taboos and a wave of pioneers with headscarves have graced the Turkish political...
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Friday, August 04, 2023
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Gender in newsrooms: why representation doesn’t equate to inclusion
WAN-IFRA
This post, based on a conversation that took place during a webinar organised by Emma Goodman in collaboration with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Media Partnership’s team, dives into some of the issues highlighted by the...
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Wednesday, August 02, 2023
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Gender discrimination in Israel on the rise due to surge in extremism
Fanack
Extremist discourse is on the rise in Israel, and the national and religious right’s influence in public politics is expanding. This change culminated in December 2022, when it gave rise to the election of the most extreme administration in the...
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Wednesday, August 02, 2023
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Gender parity in Nigerian politics: progress in appointive positions, but still a long way to go in elective positions
Opinion Nigeria
It is no more news that the presidential and general elections conducted earlier in the year have gone with the characteristic display of patriarchal and domineering dispositions usually exhibited by misogynistic politicians toward their female...
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Wednesday, June 21, 2023
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Ghana: ‘Only 40 women MPs out of 275 is a foul cry; it’s disappointing’ — Speaker Bagbin bemoans
Modern Ghana
The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin has expressed his disappointment with the low representation of women in Ghana’s parliament, describing it as a “foul cry” and “disappointing”. During a public forum held in Tamale to...
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Source: Pulse
Tuesday, June 20, 2023
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Ghana: low female representation in Parliament is disappointing - Bagbin bemoans
Pulse
Speaking at a public forum in Tamale as part of activities to mark 30 years of the Fourth Republican Constitution, the Speaker of Parliament expressed his disappointment with the low percentage of women in parliament, He has thus called for more...
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Source: Women's Web
Tuesday, June 13, 2023
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Gender equality in urban governance: the need for women community leaders
Women's Web
Women play a critical role not just in their homes and offices but also in the progress of the entire human race. While they have always held roles like those of scholars, writers, administrators, and reformers, women’s participation as community...
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Source: Modern Ghana
Tuesday, May 23, 2023
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Ghana: Increase women's participation, representation in 2023 district level elections
Modern Ghana
According to ABANTU, over the years, women have increasingly shown interest in the local government system that is intended to bring government to the doorstep of people but have failed to attain the 30% UN recommended minimum threshold in...
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Germany’s parliament is more female than it was (The Economist/DPA)
Tuesday, November 08, 2022
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Germany’s parliament is more female than it was
The Economist
Apolitical man is disgusting, but a political woman is appalling…In history there are no more cruel phenomena than political women,” wrote Richard Wagner to Franz Liszt, his fellow composer, about Ortrud, the sorceress in his opera “Lohengrin”....
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»Coumba Diaw, Senegal« picture: UN Women/Assane Gueye licence: CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0
Wednesday, July 27, 2022
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Gender agenda: The big conundrum in the general elections in Kenya and Senegal
Heinrich Böll Stiftung
In the months of July and August, Senegal and Kenya will hold their general elections. However, the big question remains: Where do Senegalese and Kenyan women stand on their quest to parliamentary mandates and political offices? Recent statistics...
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Garbage, blasted glass, and the women cleaning up political filth in Lebanon - CNN
Saturday, May 14, 2022
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Garbage, blasted glass, and the women cleaning up political filth in Lebanon
CNN
(CNN) In 2015, I spent the summer protesting and getting tear-gassed. I wasn't protesting for anything grand. I was one of hundreds of thousands of people who took to the streets to demand an end to the garbage crisis. We are obsessed with cleaning...
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Monday, March 07, 2022
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Gender quotas: One of the key mechanisms to address the overrepresentation of men in positions of political leadership
International IDEA
By Rumbidzai Kandawasvika-Nhundu In most societies across all parts of the world, gender inequalities and discrimination against women remain deeply entrenched as societies are characterised by systems, processes and practices marked by gender based...
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Thursday, September 23, 2021
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Gender quotas fail to boost women in Latin American politics
Latin America’s first gender quota was supposed to increase women’s presence in politics. Thirty years later, that vision has stagnated. Three decades have passed since the first parliamentary gender quota was approved in Latin America, and women in...
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