A new blog post on the state of women’s leaders published by the Pew Research Center – a fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world – compliments the statistics captured in the Women in Politics Map 2015, issued this year in March by the Inter-Parliamentary Union and UN Women.
In addition to country-specific data, the research also highlights the startlingly short periods that women heads of governments and heads of state are in power. Covering the past 50 years, it shows that, on average, women were in power for less than four years– including 11 countries (17%) where a woman led for less than one year.
Regional differences also persists, with Latin America and South and South East Asia and most of Europe’s Nordic countries electing more women leaders than other regions. Another Pew Research Center report on women and leadership draws to some possible conclusions as to why women face challenges to enter and hold power in politics: 38% of Americans believe that women politicians are held to higher standards than men. A similar share (37%) says the nation is just not ready to elect female leaders.
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A new blog post on the state of women’s leaders published by the Pew Research Center – a fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world – compliments the statistics captured in the Women in Politics Map 2015, issued this year in March by the Inter-Parliamentary Union and UN Women.
In addition to country-specific data, the research also highlights the startlingly short periods that women heads of governments and heads of state are in power. Covering the past 50 years, it shows that, on average, women were in power for less than four years– including 11 countries (17%) where a woman led for less than one year.
Regional differences also persists, with Latin America and South and South East Asia and most of Europe’s Nordic countries electing more women leaders than other regions. Another Pew Research Center report on women and leadership draws to some possible conclusions as to why women face challenges to enter and hold power in politics: 38% of Americans believe that women politicians are held to higher standards than men. A similar share (37%) says the nation is just not ready to elect female leaders.
To read more, please click here