To encourage women participation in politics, the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development will organise a National Political Summit ahead of the 2011 general election.
Bulgarian Education Minister Yordanka Fandukova won a landslide victory in the mayoral by-election in Sofia on Sunday (November 15th), becoming the first woman to run the city in its 130-year history as the capital.Fandukova, 47, was the candidate of the ruling centre-right Citizens for the Europ
Estela Maris Álvarez is one of these women who have decided to stand up and beat the odds, challenging the abuse and discrimination they face both within and outside their communities.
"It is very exciting for me to be mayor after this long control by the opposition," said the Veronica Lesole, the first BDP mayor, after two decades of Botswana National Front (BNF) hegemony."It is my challenge and responsibility to see to it that we unite as GCC to bring developments to the peop
Former first lady Maureen Mwanawasa has said the struggle to free women from the clutches of poverty and under-development must continue. "We have women today who are in key positions in the public sector as well as in the corporate world.
Anju Dubey, head of the gender training wing of CSR, which has been engaged in training 1,000 women as a part of UNDF initiative to enhance women participation in politics, said the programme has been designed to give basic information and what they should do.
Politics is essentially led by women in Bangladesh, said Kamal. Bangladesh's current head of government is Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, while the heads of opposition were women as well for the past two decades.
Under a draft Bill submitted to the French parliament this week, all companies listed on the Paris stock exchange would have to ensure female employees made up 50pc of their board members "within five years".If passed, the new law would phase in a 20pc female quota in boardrooms within 18 months,