President Mwai Kibaki has challenged women to increase their participation in the formal business sector by taking advantage of a Sh5 billion Women Investment Fund he launched Monday.
Moves to help Muslim women exert more influence in their communities are to be announced in the latest bid to curb violent extremism.
The five female members of the present National Assembly are all joining politics. Four of the five chimis, Lhuentse chimi Deki Pelzom, Dagana chimi Jashma Lama, Phuentsholing chimi Passing Dem and Mongar chimi Sonam have already registered with the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Rajnath Singh today criticised the UPA Government for its failure to re-introduce a bill in Parliament to give 33 percent reservation to women in politics.
When women call for gender sensitivity in state policies, the male-dominated decision makers almost always respond that it is not necessary because men and women are the same.
The All People's Congress (APC), Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) and People's Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC) all come in well below the goal of 30% representation of women in parliament, as set out in the Commonwealth Plan of Action and Millennium Development Goals.
The State Department announced Thursday that it has established a US-Iraqi businesswomen's partnership to allow female business executives from the two countries to have a virtual mentoring program.
New French President Nicolas Sarkozy pledged to shake up and renew France when he took office. And he started with his cabinet, which includes 11 women - three of them from minority backgrounds.
About 200 members of the activist group Women of Zimbabwe Arise demonstrated Monday outside the South African Embassy in Harare to make the point that civic groups should be involved in talks between the ruling ZANU-PF party and the opposition Movement for democratic Change that Pretoria is media