Women’s political participation in electoral processes requires targeted support to overcome gender discrimination. Key strategies for enhancing gender balance in electoral processes include: working with political parties to promote gender sensitive policies and practices to foster women’s leadership; targeted outreach and support for women to register to vote and safely access polling stations; guarantee of protection from election related violence and harassment; the use of quotas and temporary special measures to increase women’s representation; effective technical and financial support to women candidates and political leaders; and engagement of male champions for women’s empowerment and gender equality.
Despite the male-dominated political landscape in Ivory Coast, a handful of women intend to stand for president in the October election.
By Michelle Duff,
In the 127 years since women have been able to vote, you’d think someone would have asked them what they want.
You would think.
In the fierce competition for individual seats in the Senate elections, women compete for 91 seats in 20 electoral districts nationwide, out of 787 candidatesin Cairo Governorate.
Egypt’s House of Representatives approved, on Tuesday, a new law that will see the country’s parliamentary electoral districts redrawn.
Despite strong efforts to promote female leadership and political engagement by advocacy groups, women still face serious roadblocks to political
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In the late 1990s, Stacey Abrams faced a decision.
By Maureen Groppe,
A group of Democratic women leaders is calling out sexist coverage of female Democratic vice presidential contenders — and they're asking that newsrooms do