Women's Leadership

"Women hold just 30 per cent of seats in Parliament; only two of 12 premiers are women. It matters because women matter."

The political landscape in Asia has been very dynamic lately, but it is a disappointment to me personally that events have not been kind to women.

In this special Women in Politics series for the Australia-PNG Network, the Lowy Institute's Jessica Collins sits down with prominent women from Papua New Guinea to discuss the deep-seated challenge of wom

PARIS (AFP) - Elisabeth Borne, a 61-year-old engineer, was named French prime minister on Monday (May 16), becoming only the second woman

There are a few exceptions but Somali women hardly get into politics or hold top public office in what remains a deeply conservative society. Fowzia Yusuf, one of those, speaks to Al Jazeera on seeking another first.