By Renee Laiviera, Commissioner of the National Commission for the Promotion of Equality of Malta, discusses the barriers that keep women from entering the political sphere. She maintains that gender quotas are one of the most effective ways to spur...
This opinion piece was originally published by Times of Malta on 18 July 2017 here.
By Natasha Azzopardi-Muscat, president of the European Public Health Association and a senior lecturer at the University of Malta.
Over the past days, the issue of...
PN MEP hopeful calls for morefemale candidates, Malta
A PN MEP candidate has called for more female candidates for the European Parliament elections. Kevin Plumpton, President of the PN’s youth wing and a former Zabbar councilor, wrote on Facebook that the PN has “very valid candidates” and hoped that...
It was a red letter day for female politicians yesterday as Malta went from having no women in the European Parliament to three.The casual elections saw Marlene Mizzi, Roberta Metsola and Claudette Abela Baldacchino clinching the coveted seats in...
Malta could have four female MEPS after March election
Malta could have up to four female representatives in the European Parliament, if all four MEPs contesting the 9 March general election are successful in their bid to be elected in parliament.
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MALTA: First woman elected as president of a political party executive committee
Marthese Portelli was recently elected president of the Nationalist Party executive committee, making her the first woman to hold such a post in the history of Malta’s politics. “I would like to invite more women to come forward and...
