THEMATIC WEBINAR: PRESENTING FINDINGS OF FACT SHEETS ON GENDER SOCIAL NORMS & WOMEN’S POLITICAL PARTICIPATION AND REPRESENTATION

The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) is pleased to invite you to save the date (Wednesday 20 May 2026; 13.30pm - 16.30pm CET) for an upcoming webinar under the Women and Youth Democratic Engagement (WYDE) Women’s Leadership Initiative funded by the European Union (EU )implemented in partnership with UN Women, the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), and United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), under the overall coordination and leadership of UN Women.

The Webinar will present and discuss a series of thematic Fact Sheets developed to highlight how social norms influence women’s political participation and representation. The Fact Sheets draw on insights and evidence generated through the WYDE interventions, including regional and intergenerational dialogues, young women’s empowerment academies, engagements with media practitioners, and contributions from the iKNOW Politics platform and partners.

The webinar will focus on three thematic Fact Sheets:

Fact Sheet on the Role of political parties in promoting young women’s political participation and representation – which accesses the gender social norms in sample political party policies and practices across the globe, political party conduct throughout the electoral cycle, demographics of the political parties disaggregated by age and gender, political party finance distribution by age and gender, political party structure that promote gender equality, and recommend areas of influence for young women in politics within the political parties. The Fact Sheet recommends good practices for political parties to promote young women’s political participation and representation.
Fact Sheet on the Role of Media on Women’s Political Participation and Representation – which analyses statistics of women sources in political reporting, gender responsive reporting in media, capacity building of media practitioners and good practices building on the International IDEA WYDE media seminar outcomes.
Fact sheet on Access, Participation, Representation and Transformation approach for women’s political participation and representation – which explores national/regional/global policies, practices and those of political parties, parliaments and election management bodies that influence women’s participation and representation is politics, leadership and decision making at all levels. The Fact Sheet analyses the gender social norms that promote young women’s political participation and representation.

The webinar aims to:

Validate key findings, case studies, and recommendations.
Exchange regional and country-level practices on transforming gender social norms.
Identify emerging trends and shared priorities.
Inform future advocacy and programming under the WYDE initiative.

The webinar will bring together women in politics, media practitioners/journalists, male gender equality advocates/practitioners and CSOs, mostly those who have participated/engaged in WYDE activities. Further details, including the agenda will be shared separately.

Where

Zoom

THEMATIC WEBINAR: PRESENTING FINDINGS OF FACT SHEETS ON GENDER SOCIAL NORMS & WOMEN’S POLITICAL PARTICIPATION AND REPRESENTATION

Event

THEMATIC WEBINAR: PRESENTING FINDINGS OF FACT SHEETS ON GENDER SOCIAL NORMS & WOMEN’S POLITICAL PARTICIPATION AND REPRESENTATION

Validate key findings, case studies, and recommendations.

Exchange regional and country-level practices on transforming gender social norms.

Identify emerging trends and shared priorities.

Inform future advocacy and programming under the WYDE initiative.