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March 31, 2020
The voice of women leaders is critical today more than ever

Strong leadership is recognized as a collective effort, with the best decisions drawing on cognitive diversity and success builds on success.

March 31, 2020
Women in Politics 2020 Map: Turkey Ranks 122nd

According to the “Women in Politics 2020” Map prepared by UN Women and IPU, Turkey ranks 138th in the category of women in ministerial positions while it ranks 122nd in the category of women in parliament, marking a degrade of two rankings.

March 31, 2020
Why gender matters in the impact and recovery from Covid-19

The Covid-19 outbreak has revealed the strengths and weaknesses in our collective global and national capacities to respond to this health emergency.

March 27, 2020
How suffragists raced to secure women's right to vote ahead of the 1920 election

The year 1917 was highly consequential for the suffrage movement.

March 27, 2020
‘Opening a door that was closed too long’: the hunt for a female vice-president

Hours after the Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren ended her presidential campaign and all but assured the next American president would be a white man in his 70s, a group of influential Democratic women gathered for dinner at a Spanish restauran

March 26, 2020
How female Prime Ministers are leading in this time of crisis

Across the world, more than ever people are looking for strong, inspiring leadership. Three incredible Prime Ministers are demonstrating particularly heartening excellent resolve during this pandemic. Oh, and they just happen to be women.

March 17, 2020
Picturing the past: A brief history of women in Transylvania politics

In April 1922, Roxie Dunn announced that she was running on the Democratic ticket for county treasurer.

March 16, 2020
Women are refusing to take the backseat in politics, especially Latinas

In 1913, the day before Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration, the Suffragette Parade organized between 5,000 and 10,000 women and allies,

Focus Taiwan
March 16, 2020
Taiwan blasts Tsai's exclusion from U.N.'s Woman in Politics map

The Presidential Office on Friday tweeted a blistering criticism of a United Nations entity that produced a map, in collaboration with another organization, showing the global rankings of women in government, executive and parliamentary positions but excluded