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February 24, 2020
On the trail of America’s first women voters

It has long been seen as one of the flukes of American political history: For three decades after the American Revolution, the women of New Jersey had equal voting rights with men.

February 21, 2020
USA: Running for office? This company lends free clothes to women candidates

It's an offer candidates shouldn't refuse. 

February 21, 2020
Election boycott by female political prisoners held in Evin prison in Iran

Female political prisoners held in Iran’s notorious Evin Prison wrote in a statement: "It is up to us to leave their elections for themselves and remain in the real square of popular elections.

February 21, 2020
Israel’s new women’s party promises a ‘different kind of leadership’

“I don’t matter to Knesset members,” says Elana Sztokman in a campaign video for the new women’s party she just co-founded.

February 21, 2020
The future is female: How the growing political power of women will remake American politics

The most profound change in American politics today and in the years to come will result from a massive movement of women into the Democratic Party.

February 19, 2020
UK names first woman US ambassador

The government has named Dame Karen Pierce as the new ambassador to the US.

February 19, 2020
USA: Women predominate among the most disengaged nonvoters

Despite the fact that women are more politically active than men and have comprised a majority of voters in recent elections, a comprehensive new survey finds that women also dominate at the other end of the spectrum: They’re disproportionately among

February 17, 2020
'Be yourself': Ex-British PM Theresa May advises women in politics

Be yourself" is the advice former British prime minister Theresa May gave to the Global Women's Forum in Dubai on Monday (Feb 17), explaining how she had risen to the top job despite refusing to conform to masculine traditions in politics.

February 11, 2020
8 women candidates win Delhi Assembly election, all from AAP

As many as eight women candidates out of 79 have emerged as winners in the Delhi assembly Election 2020. All of them belong to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). The results were announced on Tuesday.