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Brazil: Parties Fielding Too Few Women in Local Elections

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Brazil: Parties Fielding Too Few Women in Local Elections

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There are still too few women on the lists of candidates for Brazil’s municipal elections in October. Women candidates for the position of mayor in the Oct. 6 elections represent only 10.3 percent of the total, hardly larger than the 2004 figure of 9.5 percent. And for seats on town councils, the proportion of women candidates has fallen from 22.1 percent in 2004 to 21.9 percent this year.
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There are still too few women on the lists of candidates for Brazil’s municipal elections in October. Women candidates for the position of mayor in the Oct. 6 elections represent only 10.3 percent of the total, hardly larger than the 2004 figure of 9.5 percent. And for seats on town councils, the proportion of women candidates has fallen from 22.1 percent in 2004 to 21.9 percent this year.
To read the full article, please visit IPS News .

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