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Thursday, September 21, 2023
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Japan: out-of-touch LDP needs to promote more women to political posts
Asahi Shimbun AJW
The sight of two dozen or so men, all in cutaway coats, standing side by side on the stairs of the prime minister's office seemed bizarre. How could Prime Minister Fumio Kishida fail to envision the out-of-touch optics? After a Cabinet reshuffle...
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La Prensa Latina
Monday, May 22, 2023
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Jordanian women and their struggle in politics
La Prensa Latina
Amman, May 11 (EFE) – The under-representation of Jordanian women in politics hinders the measures the Hashemite kingdom applied to try and close a gender gap that has impacted its ranking in political empowerment among women worldwide. Out of 164...
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Japan still far from breaking free of male-dominated politics (The Mainichi)
Thursday, July 07, 2022
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Japan still far from breaking free of male-dominated politics
The Mainichi
It's been four years since the gender parity law was passed in Japan, with an aim of fielding an equal number of female and male candidates in elections. Still, the male-dominated political environment has not changed. Women make up 33.2% of all...
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PHOTO: EPA-EFE, The Straits Times. People walk past posters of political parties leaders in Tokyo, on Oct 19, 2021. More than 1,000 candidates are running for the election but only 186 are female.
Thursday, October 28, 2021
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Japan’s election unlikely to bring more representation for women
Bloomberg
Less than a fifth of candidates in Japan’s upcoming election are female, unchanged from the last vote four years ago, indicating the percentage of women in one of the world’s most male-dominated parliaments is unlikely to increase. More than 1,000...
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Monday, November 09, 2020
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Jacinda Ardern’s career has created a more robust template for the New Political Woman in the 21st century
Indian Express
In our generation, the late Aruna Asaf Ali once told me, even emancipated women were secretly conformist. They took a certain righteous pleasure in saying they were in the political movement for freedom to support their father, brother or husband....
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Monday, October 26, 2020
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Japan has so few women politicians that when even one is gaffe-prone, it's damaging
CNN
Last month, Japanese lawmaker Mio Sugita caused outrage on social media when she said that some women lie about sexual assaults. "Women can tell as many lies as they want," Sugita was reported to have said at a ruling party parliamentary meeting on...
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Friday, May 22, 2020
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Jacinda Ardern's global renown is great, but she must do more for women
The Guardian
The gendered dimensions of political leadership during the Covid-19 crisis has achieved global proportions, with headlines claiming that women are doing things differently, and with better results. Much of this is assertion, given Vietnam and...
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Thursday, March 21, 2019
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Jacinda Ardern – and why we need more women in politics
CNBC
By Harini Calamur, Jacinda Ardern. Most of us had barely heard of her name before last week. And, today she is known pretty much across the world that follows the news. Ms Ardern is the 40th Prime Minister of New Zealand, and earlier known for being...
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Thursday, March 21, 2019
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Jacinda Ardern is showing the world what real leadership is: sympathy, love and integrity
The Guardian
By Suzanne Moore, Out of the horror inflicted by those who cannot accept the world as it is, comes a vision of a better world. It comes from above and it comes from below. It comes from ordinary people. Supermarkets in Wellington suburbs have sold...
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