It’s beginning to dawn on society that women are the talent base for the future. They’re the force behind consumer spending and the drivers of small-business development.
"The problem is not in the laws but in the mindsets of government employees entrusted with the responsibility of issuing citizenship cards. They cannot imagine a women’s identity independent of a man," said the FLWD’s Meera Dhungana.
The shooting of a female Afghan politician on Monday demonstrates the fragility of the modest gains made by Afghan women after the fall of the Taleban, Amnesty International said on Thursday.
“Are we short of problems that we add one more to it,” said a senior Congress leader and Union minister when asked whether the government was going ahead with the Bill in the Lok Sabha in this session.
Of the eight MDGs to be achieved by 2015, efforts to decrease maternal mortality, and improve maternal health (Goal Five) have progressed the least since 2000, according to Ban, who launched the global initiative to focus international attention on the issue.
Given the 24-year lag since Sudan’s last multiparty election, voting in today's Sudanese election proceeded rather smoothly.
Women now hold 55% of all jobs in the public service, and 43% of executive positions. Ms. Barrados says that government should strive for a reasonable balance of gender hiring, but doesn’t think that special programs are required to attract either gender.
The increasingly presidential style of the UK general election campaign has edged senior women politicians out of the forefront of the political debate, shifting focus instead on to the wives of the three party leaders, a number of prominent female Labour MPs conceded today.
Afghan women in public life have always struggled, but the involvement of the international community in Afghanistan over the past eight and a half years opened space for women that did not exist under Taliban rule. Current trends, though, are negative.