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Thursday, August 10, 2023
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
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
Women leaders call for action to break up ‘old boys club’ in politics
Free Malaysia Today
Women leaders from Bersatu, DAP, and PKR have urged the government to implement affirmative action policies to bring more women into political positions. Wanita Bersatu secretary Nolee Ashilin Radzi said it was time Putrajaya enacted a law to...
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Students graduating from Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo, Nigeria. Credit: Rajmund Dabrowski/ANN.
Wednesday, July 06, 2022
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
“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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Equal Representation? The Debate Over Gender Quotas (Picture Harvard International Review)
Monday, December 20, 2021
Academic Paper / Article
Equal Representation? The Debate Over Gender Quotas (Part 1)
Harvard International Review
This article is the first in a two-part series examining the impact of gender quotas. The second article discusses the impact of quotas in Sweden and India. Gender quotas exist in a shockingly high number of countries. More than 130 nations have...
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Wednesday, June 02, 2021
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
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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Al Jazeera
Thursday, April 22, 2021
Multimedia
Amina Mohammed: 'A woman as president of Nigeria would be great' | Talk to Al Jazeera
Amina Mohammed has risen from humble beginnings in Nigeria to become the most powerful woman in the United Nations. For more than 30 years, she has worked hard to shine a light on the developmental challenges facing our world – particularly women....
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Kim Janey and Tishaura Jones, The Boston Globe via Getty Images and AP
Thursday, April 22, 2021
USA: The number of Black women mayors leading major cities to reach historic high
CNN
(CNN) - A new wave of Black women are breaking barriers as they ascend to mayoral seats in cities with deeply rooted histories of racism and inequality. On Tuesday, Tishaura Jones will be sworn in as the first Black female mayor of St. Louis after...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Despite more women leaders, society thinks men are more suitable in leadership roles, study finds
CBS News
A new study conducted by Women Political Leaders and Kantar, the creators of The Reykjavik Index for Leadership, shows inequality persists in how society views leadership. The study found that despite global movements calling for greater equality,...
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Monday, November 09, 2020
With Harris as VP, South Asian women see an opening into politics
NBC News
After Joe Biden was projected to have won the presidency Saturday morning, Kamala Harris is set to become the next vice president of the U.S., making her the first Asian American, the first Black person and the first woman to hold the office. For...
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Monday, November 09, 2020
Reykjavík Global Forum
The 2020 edition of the Reykjavík Global Forum (November 9-11) will provide a unique and significant occasion for women leaders to connect across sectors, to take stock of the new reality created by the pandemic, to share solutions for fostering...
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Monday, November 09, 2020
Report / White Paper
The impact of the cost of politics on inclusive political participation in Uganda
NIMD
This study applied a conceptual framework that uses a comparative and gendered approach to estimate the cost of politics, using a set of pre-identified variables regularly incurred by both candidates seeking political office and elected...
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Monday, August 17, 2020
Coronavirus: The African Women Leaders Network – a movement for the transformation of Africa
The Guardian
The year 2020 began on a high note for the African Women Leaders Network (AWLN). As the world was preparing to mark 25 years since the Fourth World Conference on Women, AWLN sought to commemorate the anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and...
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Friday, July 24, 2020
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
‘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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Friday, June 19, 2020
Interviews
Lady Astor returns from America – The Guardian archive, 1922
The Guardian
Lady Astor and Lord Astor returned to London from their American trip this evening. They had not come straight to London, but had gone first to Cleveden to see their children at their home at Taplow. This afternoon they went to see Lord Astor’s...
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Friday, May 15, 2020
A record number of women have filed to run for House seats in 2020
CBS News
A record 490 women have filed to run for U.S. House seats in 2020, surpassing the previous record of 476 set in 2018, according to new data from the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) at Rutgers University. That figure includes a record...
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Wednesday, March 04, 2020
“I am Generation Equality: Realizing Women’s Rights”
Women’s rights and gender equality are taking centre stage in 2020. Twenty-five years since the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action—a progressive roadmap for gender equality—it’s time to take stock of progress and bridge the...
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Thursday, February 06, 2020
Women leaders who were elected to highest office
History
More than 70 nations worldwide have seen a woman lead their governments in the modern era. Some have been elected, some appointed; some served for relatively brief terms, while others have left an enduring legacy behind them. These seven women are...
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Wednesday, January 29, 2020
FG gets report on women’s political participation in 2019 elections
The Guardian
A delegation of national and international partners, led by United Nations (UN) women, has presented to the Minister of Women Affairs, Dame Pauline Tallen, a detailed report of a national conference to assess lessons learnt on women’s political...
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