Women, we are told by clever psephologists, will put the next man in Downing street. All the leaders of the main political parties are male. We are the king makers and breakers but it still has to be a King.Still, we have the power!!!
Since the mid-1990s, Dalit women’s groups and platforms have expressed three concerns: impact of state policies, patriarchal bias of Dalit movements, and upper-caste/middle-class leadership of the women’s movement.
On Wednesday March 24th, 47 women from across the country and from all political hues graduated from the 1st Women in Politics Project hosted by the National Women’s Commission. Minister of Human Development and Social Transformation Hon.
Despite remarkable progress in improving the status of women in social and economic terms, China lags the rest of Asia in empowering women politically, a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) study has found.Women's participation in the labour force in China is now 70 per cent, far higher t
As a member of the Presidium of the Vietnam Women’s Union and chief of its legal committee from January 2006 to December 2007, Khanh was endorsed by the Union and reelected to the legislature in 2008.
Pramono revealed this when explaining the preparations for the PDI-P congress on April 6 in Nusa Dua, Bali.A total of 471 branch administrators and 33 provinces, including 25 parted regions, said Pramono, have finished their meetings.The four branches that have proposed Guruh Soekarnoputra as Cha
India and Pakistan may have charted different paths since Independence, but there is one point at which they converge — the politics of dynasty. Historian Ramachandra Guha noticed this striking, somewhat piquant similarity as he drove down the Mall in Lahore last year.
“Media is very powerful and has great influence over the public views issues and actions they take, especially at this time in the run up elections,” says Val Stanley of UNIFEM.Ms Stanley said the workshop should enable the media to report their articles with sensitivity to gender and women and t
“By including more women in the labor force, you increase productivity” and thus add jobs to the economy, said John Sfakianakis, chief economist at Riyadh-based Banque Saudi Fransi.