Elections
For the first time in Poland's history, more women than men voted. Almost 75% of eligible women voted—a 12% increase over 2019. In comparison, 73% of eligible male voters cast a ballot.
The election also saw a record number of female candidates (44%) and the largest percentage of women (30%) voted into Poland's Sejm.
Click here to read the full article published by Phys on 1 November 2023.
Development Diaries reports that by virtue of the ruling of the Court of Appeal in Abuja, Akpoti-Uduaghan is the first woman in the history of the north-central state to be elected senator.
The appellate court upheld the decision of the Kogi State National/State Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal, which had previously declared Akpoti-Uduaghan of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the genuine winner of the February National Assembly poll.
Click here to read the full article published by the Development Diaries on 1 November 2023.
The active involvement of Omani women in political life has witnessed a significant upsurge, particularly in their enthusiastic participation in the election of members for the tenth term of the Majlis Al Shura.
In the election for the tenth term of the Majlis Al Shura, scheduled for Sunday, a notable 738 candidates are vying for seats, of whom 31 are women.
Impressively, the total number of registered voters have reached 753,690, with 362,844 of them being women. Noteworthy is the fact that 91 percent of these voters have registered via the “Intakhib” application, while the remaining 9 percent have registered through the elections website.
Click here to read the full article published by the Times of Oman on 28 October 2023.
Some love him for it. Others are appalled.
The libertarian outsider who unexpectedly surged to the front of the presidential race in an August primary, had a poorer-than-expected showing in Sunday's first election round, coming second behind center-left candidate Sergio Massa.
"There was a very strong mobilization of women against Milei," whose rhetoric "was not only anti-feminist but also anti-woman," political scientist Ivan Schuliaquer of the San Martin University in Buenos Aires told AFP.
Click here to read the full article published by France 24 on 25 October 2023.
When Helena Jeppesen-Spuhler, an advocate for the ordination of women, joined a major Vatican meeting this month, she was skeptical that an institution dominated by men for 2,000 years was ready to listen to women like her.
The gathering of some 300 bishops from around the world also included for the first time 70 lay people, women among them, who have voting rights. It was called by Pope Francis to discuss the future of the Roman Catholic Church, including sensitive topics — married priests, the blessing of gay couples, sacraments for the divorced and remarried, as well as the role of women.
Click here to read the full article published by The New York Times on 25 October 2023.
At the last federal elections in 2019, the share of women candidates elected to the 200-seat House of Representatives surged by 10 percentage points to 42%.
This year the proportion slipped back to 38.5% and 77 seats, as the Federal Statistical Office said on Monday following the October 22 election. Final complete results for the 46-seat Senate are due by November 19.
Click here to read the full article published by Swissinfo on 24 October 2023.