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Friday, November 06, 2020
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Mixed 2020 election results show that women still face a sexist political culture
The Washington Post
In 2020 — for the second straight election cycle and 100 years after the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution granting women suffrage — the number of women running for Congress set a record and more women than ever before competed...
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Wednesday, October 14, 2020
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Myanmar still fails to bring more women into politics
Irrawaddy
Women account for 51 percent of Myanmar’s population and 19 million out of 37 million eligible voters at the 2020 general election. In the previous election in 2015, 13 percent of the 6,200 candidates were female and in 2020 the rate has increased...
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Wednesday, October 14, 2020
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Males dominate COVID-19 decision making
Medical News Today
Who drives global and national COVID-19 decisions? Mostly males, according to a new study and commentary by an international group of researchers. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world looked to hastily established expert task forces to...
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Thursday, October 08, 2020
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Men overwhelmingly dominate the decision-making on Covid-19
CNN
Men are making most of the decisions related to the coronavirus pandemic -- a disturbing pattern that could be costing lives.  An analysis of 115 decision-making and key advisory bodies from 87 countries found that over 85% contain mostly men and...
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Wednesday, September 23, 2020
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Men promised a woman for Ginsburg’s seat. Is that what women want?
The New York Times
By Sydney Ember and Rebecca R. Ruiz, In 1993, when Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg was nominated to the Supreme Court, then-Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. thanked her for saving his daughter “from having to be the second woman nominee to the Supreme Court.”...
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Tuesday, September 15, 2020
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More women need to enter politics to ensure effective control over govt machinery
News 18
As far as abilities go, women have shown their prowess time and again. Women are not inferior to men in any field. As prime ministers, industrialists, sportspersons or doctors, they have proved their mettle in every profession. But there is a reason...
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Tuesday, July 28, 2020
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More women should lead Africa's coronavirus response
Aljazeera
By Damaris Matoke-Muhia,  As the race to contain one of the worst pandemics in history continues, there is an urgent need for more stringent and innovative strategies to battle COVID-19. But on the world stage, one critically important element...
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Tuesday, April 21, 2020
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Modernizing our Parliament shouldn’t end with COVID-19
I Politics
By Eleanor Fast, In unprecedented times come unprecedented measures. Amid COVID-19, Canadians have learned this first hand. Just six weeks ago, social distancing was a concept most had never heard of. Working from home, while on the rise in many...
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Thursday, July 25, 2019
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Making national legislatures more gender-balanced
The Hindu
By Archana Datta, The Global Gender Gap report for 2018 said that the widest gender disparity is in the field of political empowerment. To cite the Inter-Parliamentary Union 2018 report, women legislators account for barely 24% of all MPs across the...
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Friday, January 18, 2019
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Multiple women are in the 2020 race already and people are so pumped
Bustle
It's perhaps more likely than ever that the next U.S. president could be a woman. Following a history-making number of female candidates joining Congress this month, women in the 2020 presidential race have broken additional records less than three...
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Friday, November 30, 2018
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More women in diplomatic corps will benefit everyone
The National
The “old boys’ network” is pervasive and insidious – but it is still very real, even if it has diminished in power, thanks to the rise of women in senior positions and the momentum of those championing women in the workplace. At this week’s Diplocon...
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Tuesday, August 14, 2018
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Michigan’s all-female ticket may mark the start of something different
The Washington Post
This year, Democrats in Michigan have done something unprecedented. They have selected women to be their standard-bearers for every statewide office on the November ballot: governor, U.S. senator, attorney general and secretary of state. Which is...
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Friday, April 27, 2018
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Mentoring the next global generation of women leaders
By Carine Guidicelli and Betty-Ann Heggie All around the world, from corporate boardrooms to community kitchens, parliaments to classrooms, conversations concerning the rights and empowerment of women and girls are taking place. This is good news,...
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Monday, April 16, 2018
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Moving beyond now in women’s political representation in Papua New Guinea
Devpolicy
By Michelle Nayahamui Rooney On 6 March 2018, PNG’s Prime Minister Peter O’Neill reportedly announced a shift from limited preferential voting (LPV) back to the first past the post voting (FPTP) system in PNG’s national elections. This announcement...
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Thursday, August 24, 2017
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Malta: Can women choose politics?
By Renee Laiviera, Commissioner of the National Commission for the Promotion of Equality of Malta, discusses the barriers that keep women from entering the political sphere. She maintains that gender quotas are one of the most effective ways to spur...
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Monday, October 27, 2014
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Miss Independent, Scotland
By Bérengère Sim Remember that moment in the Scottish Independence Referendum campaign when Yes pulled ahead of No in an opinion poll? 51% and 49% respectively? You know, when international media finally woke up and turned its undivided (and rather...
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Sunday, August 24, 2014
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Marina Silva, the Afro-Brazilian environment activist that could take over another female president.
Marina Silva by Lucile Huguet, iKNOW Politics writer.             Marina Silva is a female political activist from Brazil who has been involved in the fight to protect our planet since the age of twenty five. She is a fierce opponent of the actual...
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Friday, December 09, 2011
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Making It magazine issue on measuring women's economic empowerment
Fourth quarter of 2011 issue of UNIDO's Making It magazine is devoted to the issue of women's economic empowerment. Articles by Michelle Bachelet, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, Zoe Elena Horn, Jan O'Sullivan, and many more. ‘Women hold up half the sky’ is a...
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