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Women's Leadership

December 2, 2022
UN scores Nigeria low on women participation in politics

INEC urges political parties to respect their constitutions

The United Nations (UN) has scored Nigeria low in the area of women participation in politics.

November 30, 2022
Jacinda Ardern and Sanna Marin dismiss suggestion their age and gender was reason for meeting

Finland’s PM says she met Ardern in New Zealand because they are both ‘prime ministers’ after journalist asks whether it was due to similar age and gender.

November 30, 2022
Nepal: Women candidates in HoR and PA elections of 2079 BS

KATHMANDU, Nov 25: Five women candidates have been elected to the House of Representatives (HoR) in the elections held on November 20.

Towards improved measures of gender inequality: An evaluation of the United Nations Development Programme’s Gender Inequality Index and a proposal

This paper proposes replacing the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Gender Inequality Index with two new gender indexes: the Global Gender Parity Index (GGPI) and the Women’s Empowerment Index (WEI).

November 28, 2022
Nigeria: NGO laments inadequate publicity for women politicians, others

The CEO Women Radio, a non-governmental organization, Toun Okewale Sonaiya, has lamented that female politicians and leaders are not given the adequate media coverage as their male counterparts.

November 28, 2022
Women leaders present a gender-responsive constitutional vision to representatives of the international community

Forty women from civil society organizations, women’s groups, political parties, armed movements, and academia came together over two weeks and produced a joint gender-responsive constitutional vision in a series of workshops organized by UNITAMS in close collaboratio