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AGORA
Friday, April 09, 2021
Website / Database
AGORA: Portal for Parliamentary Development
AGORA
From its launch in 2010, the AGORA Portal for Parliamentary Development has played a leading role in the parliamentary development community as a knowledge and learning hub for parliamentarians, parliamentary staff, development partners and academia...
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Photo | UN Women
Friday, April 09, 2021
An interactive map helps municipalities in building gender responsive services
UN Turkey
Purple Map shows women centers, day care centers and gender responsive municipal services of Ankara Metropolitan Municipality. UN Women launched a gender responsive interactive tool called the Purple Map for the women of Ankara, the capital city of...
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International IDEA
Monday, March 22, 2021
Website / Database
Africa: Women in Political Participation
WPP Africa
Women in Political Participation- is a Pan-African gender project on the different facets of Women and Politics in Africa. Funded by Sida and implemented by International IDEA, its aim is to contribute to advancing the goal of gender equality in...
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CAWP
Thursday, January 28, 2021
Academic Paper / Article
Are women reshaping the political donor class in the USA? Money matters in the upcoming races for Governor
CAWP
Within the next two years, 38 states will hold gubernatorial elections, including two states - Virginia and New Jersey – who will hold gubernatorial elections in November 2021. These elections provide multiple opportunities for women. Nine women...
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Monday, December 14, 2020
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
A wave of women just swept into power in the 'Country of Rapists'
Vice
When Elvia Barrios was named the first woman to be Peru’s top judge this month, she wasted no time in highlighting the twin evils undermining the country’s legal system - sexism and corruption. Noting the high number of magistrates convicted of...
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Monday, December 14, 2020
AWLN Intergenerational Retreat on Women’s Leadership in Africa
The second “African Women Leaders Network Intergenerational Retreat on Leadership in Africa” will be held virtually on 15th and 16th December 2020 at 02:00 P.M. (Nairobi) under the patronage of  H.E Uhuru Kenyatta, President of the Republic of Kenya...
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Friday, November 06, 2020
Africa misses opportunity to promote equality in elections
All Africa
Women make up more than half of Africa's population, but their representation in politics in the past decade has been insignificant. With a numerical significance of 52 percent against their male counterparts, women are least likely to hold...
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Friday, November 06, 2020
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
A groundbreaking election for women in Congress?
The New York Times
Women across the United States made several gains in this week’s election, producing a string of firsts down the ballot and nudging up representation in both the House and the Senate. A total of 131 women will serve in the next Congress, according...
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Wednesday, November 04, 2020
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
A historic gender gap: why men and women are voting differently
Financial Times
Genevieve Woodard Hartley and her husband used to vote for the same presidential candidate. Not this year. While both describe themselves as Republicans, the couple, who live in Houston, Texas, is “splitting” its ticket. Ms Woodard Hartley will vote...
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Monday, October 26, 2020
Interviews
A record number of indigenous women are running for office this year
Vogue
A report from the Center for American Women and Politics states that, in 2020, 18 Native American women—nine Democrats and nine Republicans—will have run as congressional candidates. This is the largest number of Native American women who have run—...
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Friday, October 23, 2020
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls out casual contempt for women in last night’s presidential debate
Stylist
Whether it’s Nobel prize-winners reduced to the title of “wife” or female professors routinely called “Miss”, women’s names are a constant battle line in the ongoing fight for gender recognition. The frustrating inability to address a woman as she...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Anne Kalmari
Anne Kalmari is a Member of Parliament from Finland.  This interview was conducted in March 2019 in the margins of the sixty-third session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW63) in New York.
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Wednesday, October 21, 2020
African women enjoying increasing participation in politics
Macau Business
The African continent has achieved major milestones in women’s participation in political decision making during the past decade, the African Union (AU) Commission has said. “Throughout the decade, considerable progress was made in translating...
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Monday, September 28, 2020
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Attitudes towards women’s political participation in Solomon Islands
Dev Policy
A total of 26 women stood as candidates at the 2019 Solomon Islands national general election and, for the first time since independence, two women won seats in the national parliament. While this could be perceived as a positive development, it is...
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Friday, September 25, 2020
African Women Leaders Network (AWLN) Young Women Leaders’ Roundtable
UN Women Zimbabwe is supporting the AWLN Zimbabwe Youth Caucus to convene a young women leaders’ roundtable discussion on ‘Young Women’s Leadership for the Realization of the Beijing Declaration’. Speakers: Opening remarks Ms. Ruvarashe Miti, AWLN...
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Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Australia: Record numbers of women are having babies in the Federal Parliament and now coronavirus might help them
ABC News
There's an unusual sense of calm inside Lisa Chesters' office. A green square inside her clock is flashing as bells ring throughout the building. But she's in no rush to leave. Gone is a Pavlovian response to bells, where everything is dropped to...
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Friday, September 11, 2020
Achieving Gender Equality in Nationality Laws during the 75th session of the UN General Assembly
As the world confronts the COVID-19 pandemic, gender discrimination in nationality laws is exacerbating the hardships facing affected families. With the widespread closing of borders to all but citizens, many families affected by gender-...
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Wednesday, September 09, 2020
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Are women leaders really doing better on coronavirus? The data backs it up
We Forum
Over the last few months, there has been much discussion of leadership during the pandemic. What constitutes good leadership? Who has performed better and which countries have been worse? One pattern that emerged early on was that female leaders...
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