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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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Thursday, August 13, 2020
At least 11 women have vied for U.S. vice president. Here’s what happened to them
National Geographic
Biden announced that Kamala Harris would be his running mate in the 2020 presidential election, making Harris, a senator from California, the first Black woman and the first Asian-American woman to run for U.S. vice president on a major party ticket...
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Tuesday, August 04, 2020
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Around globe, women leaders rise to the pandemic challenge
Yahoo
By Sara Miller Llana, Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen secured the trust and love of her people. As Denmark entered one of Europe’s first lockdowns in mid-March, the nation’s youngest-ever prime minister...
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Wednesday, July 15, 2020
App boosts role of women in peace processes
Future Scot
A mobile app has been launched to help embed women’s rights in peace negotiations in the Arab world and beyond. Ç Researchers from the University of Edinburgh, Monash University in Australia and InclusivePeace in Geneva, have developed the data and...
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Wednesday, July 08, 2020
A century after women gained the right to vote, majority of Americans see work to do on gender equality
Pew Social Trends
A hundred years after the 19th Amendment was ratified, about half of Americans say granting women the right to vote has been the most important milestone in advancing the position of women in the country. Still, a majority of U.S. adults say the...
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Wednesday, July 08, 2020
African Centre for Women in Politics lauds selection of Prof Jane Opoku Agyemang as Mahama’s running mate
My Joy Online
The African Centre for Women in Politics (ACWP) has described the appointment of Prof Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang as ‘a fulfillment that has been long-awaited by women in Ghana, in Africa and the world at large.” In a press release, the group...
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Wednesday, July 01, 2020
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
A year after Bashir’s fall, the struggle for Sudanese women continues
Wilson Center
By Reem Abbas, In a recent meeting between Sudanese women activists and members of the central committee of the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC), Sudan’s current ruling coalition, women were given myriad justifications for their exclusion from...
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Friday, June 26, 2020
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
A call to defend democracy
International Idea
The COVID-19 pandemic threatens more than the lives and the livelihoods of people throughout the world. It is also a political crisis that threatens the future of liberal democracy. Authoritarian regimes, not surprisingly, are using the crisis to...
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Monday, June 22, 2020
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
A quiet revolution for women in US foreign and security policy?
The Hill
The Departments of Defense, State, USAID and Homeland Security recently launched plans regarding women in U.S. foreign and security policy. The joint rollout unveiled the Trump administration’s roadmap for changing the way America and its allies and...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2020
Guide / Training Material
A Primer for Parliamentary Action: Gender-sensitive Responses to COVID-19
UN Women
This Primer highlights practical ways Members of Parliament (MPs) and parliamentary staff can take action to ensure COVID-19 response and recovery decision-making address women’s needs. It is informed by the differential impacts of the disease on...
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Monday, June 15, 2020
Aunty, Didi, Bhabhi, Tai: How Indian women politicians are ‘domesticated’ so they fit in
Feminism India
The Suffrage, one of the most important milestones for the feminist movement, marked the beginning of women’s struggle to win the right to vote. Generations later, not only do women exercise voting rights, they have also contested and won elections...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Ardern becomes New Zealand's most popular PM in a century: poll
Reuters
Jacinda Ardern became New Zealand’s most popular prime minister in a century, a Newshub-Reid Research poll showed on Monday, thanks to her COVID-19 response that made the country among the most successful in curbing the spread of the disease. The...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2020
African Women Leaders Network (AWLN) Virtual Consultation on COVID-19 Responseses
In support of the global and continental efforts to address the challenges posed by COVID-19, the African Women Leaders Network (AWLN) is convening a Virtual Consultation COVID-19 Response on Thursday 28th May 2020. The consultation will aim to...
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Friday, May 15, 2020
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
A ‘feminine’ crisis? Something unique about the coronavirus may be widening the political gender gap
Seattle Times
By Danny Westneat, I’ve been getting a barrage of feedback on the big bind we have facing us — which is when, and how, we should go back to normal life and work amid the continuing threat of the coronavirus. Most of the hundreds of emailers or...
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Friday, May 15, 2020
As women make up only 6% of Parliament, gender equality is still a long way off in Iran
Modern Diplomacy
On 21 February 2020, the people of Iran went to the polls to vote for 290 seats in the Islamic Consultative Assembly. The most recent parliamentary elections, held every four years in Iran, resulted in the formation of a parliamentary body with only...
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Tuesday, May 05, 2020
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
A shaken world demands balanced leadership
Medium
By Rick Zedník, In late March, as Covid-19 killed hundreds of Americans each day, Donald Trump referred to himself as a “wartime president”. Within days, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said, “every one of us is enlisted” to “fight”, before he...
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