Women politicians who gathered for a workshop organised by the Botswana Media Women's Association (BOMWA) and the Gender and Media in Southern Africa (GEMSA) complained that women were accused of earning political office by providing sexual favours.
The second Global Gender Gap Report 2007 ranked Israel 36th out of 128 countries, based on assessments in four critical areas of inequality between men and women: economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, political empowerment and health and survival.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour, the world’s leading global sport for women, announced today the selection and funding of women’s leadership programs in Cameroon, Liberia, China, Jordan and the Dominican Republic, along
Pakistani police placed opposition leader Benazir Bhutto under house arrest Friday, uncoiling barbed wire in front of her Islamabad home and reportedly rounding up 5,000 of her supporters to block a mass protest against emergency rule.
The battle for the control of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Women' s Assembly has exposed several issues which key stakeholders have to note.
Representing the congressional district of San Francisco, Nancy Pelosi last year became the first woman speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives—the highest-ranking woman in government.
An Edmonton woman is this year's winner of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities' (FCM) Canadian Women in Municipal Government scholarship. Claire Dub won the scholarship for her research into why more women do not run for political office.
A quarter of the candidates in next week's Jordanian elections are women, but they face an uphill battle.
A new group was formed recently in Saint Kitts. Its mission is to see women take a more active part in leading our nation, especially in politics.
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