Political Parties
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): Political parties wax eloquently about women’s rights, but when it comes to giving tickets in the assembly elections, they fail to walk the talk. This time, with the passing of the Women’s Bill in Parliament, many had expected that more women would be given tickets. However, so far, both Congress and BJP have disappointed the women.
Click here to read the full article published by Free Press Journal on 17 October 2023.
Although women have come out of backwardness, there is still a long way to go. Although progress has been made in the position of women in education, employment, and politics, there is still a lot of backwardness. To establish equality between men and women, women must be present at all levels of decision-making. That is why women should have an active role in politics. The Prime Minister is a woman, the head of the opposition and another major party is a woman, and the Speaker of the National Parliament is a woman. Still, it is not enough to promote women’s leadership as expected.
Click here to read the full article published by Risingbd on 15 October 2023.
Professor Sanjay Kumar, Director of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), told Moneycontrol that to ensure the effectiveness of the Women’s Reservation Bill, political parties must start motivating women to take part in active party politics.
He noted that they should not restrict women to softer positions.
“Parties need to give at least 1/3rd of tickets to women candidates. To get these numbers, parties should start motivating women to take an active part in party politics.”
Click here to read the full article published by Moneycontrol on 28 September 2023.
“The problem is that when a woman is attacked, she gets attacked for her character, but never for her policymaking,” Union minister and BJP leader Smriti Irani. There were ludicrous claims of a tunnel running between her and a senior leader's home, writes journalist Nidhi Sharma in her recently published book ‘She, The Leader -- Women in Indian Politics’. She adds the rumours never bothered the minister.
Click here to read the full article published by India Today on 22 September 2023.
September 6 was a groundbreaking day for Mexico. It’s not just because that’s when governing Morena coalition announced that a woman—former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum—would be its presidential contender. After all, Mexico witnessed a woman make a bid for the presidency for the first time in 1982 and had its first candidate for a major party in 2012. But this time around though, Sheinbaum’s selection came a few days after the Frente por México opposition coalition announced its candidate would also be a woman: Senator Xóchitl Gálvez. Given that Sheinbaum and Gálvez will be the two names representing the country’s main political forces, it’s likely that after voters cast ballots in the June 2024 election that the next president of Mexico will be a woman.
Click here to read the full article published by Americas Society/Council of the Americas on 14 September 2023.
Key political parties in Ghana have pledged to create space for active girls and young women participation in politics as a strategy to promote their involvement in decision-making at all levels of national endeavour.
They believe it was the way to ensure inclusive governance which encompassed all interest groups, especially the vulnerable and marginalised in society.
The parties made the pledge at a sensitisation meeting on the involvement of girls and young women in leadership with political parties as part of the implementation of the “She Leads” project.
Click here to read the full article published by Business Ghana on 13 September 2023.
This e-book with the title “The Success and the Barriers to Women’s Representation in Southeast Asia: Between State Policies, Political Parties and Women’s Movement” is a result of analysis of four regional researches conducted in a USAID Program called IKAT US Component 1 (“Building Sustainable Partnerships to Promote Women’s Political Representation in SEA”). The goal of the program is to strengthen women’s political rights and democracy, by advocating the promotion of better women’s political representation through regional partnership initiatives. To achieve this goal, the program has been working toward the following objectives: (1) to increase the capacity to conduct and collaborate on activities for the promotion of democracy in Southeast Asia; (2) to advocate policy frameworks towards the progress of achieving a minimum target of 30 percent women’s political representation in Southeast Asia.
This e-publication highlights the significance of women’s representation in the parliament, state’s political system and women’s representation, patriarchal system and barriers to women political participation, women’s movement for political affirmation and challenges to women’s representation.