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The near-50% number of female members in Welsh Assembly could drop below 30% in 2011 amid retirements and changes in party selection procedures.

“This female public official needs us to help her navigate through the storm of conflicting interests that will most surely buffet her sails. That’s when she most needs her constituency – to help her be true to the ‘incandescent dream’ of integrity and accountability in public office.

The first ever Women’s Parliament in India began with a bang here on Monday with 500 elected women members, from all over India, representing their Parliamentary Constituencies to find an alternate space for an alternate vision to challenge the dominant style of politics.

Pressure is growing on European Union leaders to appoint a woman as the bloc's president or foreign affairs chief and break the male grip on its top jobs.EU leaders hope to decide who will fill the post at a summit in Brussels on Thursday but although several women are widely thought to be on the

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.