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Wednesday, September 13, 2023
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
'Bharat', women's reservation bill and 'one election' debate: buzz gets louder over parliament special session
Outlook India
For the first time in the history of independent India, the government is conducting a five-day-long special session of Parliament from September 18 to September 22. While special sessions have been called on several occasions in the past, from 1947...
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Thursday, August 10, 2023
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
'Women's safety paramount, cheap politics should stop': Navneet Rana schools opposition
Republic
Navneet Rana, Independent MP from Amravati on Tuesday while addressing the Lok Sabha opposed the No-confidence motion brought by the Opposition parties. She stated that the whole point of bringing the motion was to discuss the atrocities against...
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Thursday, August 03, 2023
'Political housemaid': North Korea hurls misogynistic slurs at US envoy Julie Turner
The News International
A newly appointed US special envoy to oversee North Korea's human rights issues was insulted by the country on Wednesday amid rising tensions between the two nations. The country reportedly threatened the US with unspecified security...
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Thursday, June 29, 2023
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
'Add women, change politics': Waterloo Mayor McCabe says of Toronto's now mayor-elect Chow
City News
It wasn’t the landslide win some had predicted but it’s a seismic shift in Toronto politics all the same with Olivia Chow elected to lead Canada’s largest city on Monday, marking a political comeback nearly a decade in the making. The one-time...
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La vicepresidenta primera del Gobierno y ministra de Asuntos Económicos y Transformación Digital, Nadia Calviño, en un encuentro este jueves. ISABEL INFANTES (EUROPA PRESS)/ El Pais
Friday, February 04, 2022
'Never again': Spain minister stands up for gender equality
ABC News
Spain’s government minister for economic affairs is making a stand for gender equality, saying she won’t take part in any more events or official group photographs where she is the only woman present. Spain’s government minister for economic affairs...
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Greens Senator Larissa Waters at a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Monday, 30 November, 2020. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING Source: AAP
Tuesday, August 03, 2021
'Toxic boys club': Women in politics join calls for code of conduct in parliament
SBS
Federal MPs have told a women’s leadership summit a "legacy of misogyny" and "sexist underbelly" continues to plague Australian politics and must be addressed. Women from across the political spectrum have called for greater representation in...
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Women supporters of Iran's presidential election favourite, ultraconservative judicary chief Ebrahim Raisi, attend a campaign rally in the city of Eslamshahr, just south of Tehran - AFP/File
Wednesday, June 16, 2021
'Long and difficult' path to political equality for Iran women
France 24
Iranian women's poor political representation could be set to worsen under an ultraconservative poised to win next week's presidential election. Ebrahim Raisi, who heads Iran's judiciary, is the clear favourite from an all-male field of seven...
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Wednesday, June 02, 2021
'The colour doesn't matter': N.B. municipalities elect more women, first Black mayor in historic election
CTW News Atlantic
FREDERICTON -- Kassim Doumbia says he always wanted to get involved and be active in his community. He moved to Shippagan 14 years ago, and has spent the last nine years on the town’s council. Tuesday night, Doumbia became New Brunswick’s first...
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In a historic first, President Biden was flanked by two women — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Vice President Harris — as he addressed a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. Chip Somodevilla/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Thursday, April 29, 2021
'Madam Speaker, Madam Vice President': Women make history at Biden's joint address
NPR
When a president addresses Congress flanked by the vice president and speaker of the House, it's tradition. But when both of those seats are filled by women, it's history in the making. Such was the case on Wednesday night, when President Biden...
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Monday, November 23, 2020
'No democracy without women': Priced out of politics in El Salvador
Reuters
The first time Karla Hernandez ran for office in El Salvador, she kept seeing a male candidate from her party in expensive television adverts, while she scraped by on a shoestring - relying on volunteers to hand out flyers and knock on doors....
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Monday, November 09, 2020
'You can't be what you can't see': Female politicians of color discuss what Harris' win means to them
CNN
The ascension of Kamala Harris as the first female, first Black and first South Asian vice president-elect is both symbolic and important to many women across the United States, and several female politicians of color expressed on CNN Sunday morning...
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Monday, October 05, 2020
'She set the benchmark': trailblazing PNG politician Nahau Rooney dies, aged 75
The Guardian
Hardworking, audacious, occasionally controversial, but always vivacious: one of Papua New Guinea’s political pioneers, Nahau Rooney, has been remembered as a trailblazer for PNG women in power following her death on 15 September, aged 75. In 1977,...
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Tuesday, September 01, 2020
Interviews
'We will always fix it': Jacinda Ardern's promise to NZ over COVID-19 mistakes
News Hub
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she will "never" shy away from admitting when the Government has screwed up. At the weekend the Government's official Unite Against COVID-19 social media channels and website urged everyone in south and west...
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Tuesday, June 23, 2020
'I want to see myself:' Black women mount public and private campaign for Biden to pick a Black woman running mate
CNN
Influential Black women are mounting a robust effort to persuade presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden that selecting a black woman as his running mate would give him the best advantage to win the White House in November. These women --...
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Wednesday, June 03, 2020
'We are losers in this crisis': research finds lockdowns reinforcing gender inequality
The Guardian
Life during the coronavirus lockdown has reinforced gender inequality across Europe with research emphasising that the economic and social consequences of the crisis are far greater for women and threaten to push them back into traditional roles in...
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Yahoo
Tuesday, June 02, 2020
'It's not a joking matter': Boris Johnson reprimanded over lack of women in government during COVID-19 crisis
Yahoo
Boris Johnson has been reprimanded after laughing when he was asked about a lack of female decision makers in the government’s coronavirus response. Appearing before the House of Commons liaison committee, the prime minister was told by chair Sir...
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Monday, March 16, 2020
Interviews
'Politics should be the lifestyle of every single person': Hajer Sharief
Forbes India
From wanting to become a surgeon, like the protagonists of her favourite TV series Grey’s Anatomy, to combating violent extremism by improving political participation of women and the youth, Hajer Sharief has come a long way. She was a 19-year-old...
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Monday, March 16, 2020
'2020 will be my year': the push to elect women in Vanuatu, a nation with no female MPs
The Guardian
Motoralivoa Hilda Lini stands at the front door of Vanuatu’s parliament, wearing an elegant pink dress and customary pig tusks on her wrists, signifying her chiefly status. When the Guardian apologises for being late, because we had been waiting on...
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