Australia got its first female prime minister on Thursday after the ruling party dumped Kevin Rudd and installed his deputy as leader.
Julia Gillard will lead the government to elections due within months.
The day she won election for village head of Gaojie, a hamlet of 1,217 in hilly loess country in northern Shaanxi Province, Bai Yitong was a fresh-faced 19-year-old with scraped-back hair and big, square-rimmed glasses.
The girls of the world can't afford to have female politicians not pay attention to them: Teenage girls account for one in 10 births in the world, but more teen mothers die in childbirth than any other age group: Less than two cents of every development dollar is directed toward girls; about 25,
The very low level of female representation in local government is possibly due to the ''rough'' and ''confronting'' nature of politics, which does not come naturally to women, the general manager of North Sydney Council says.
An Islamic group, Women in Da'awah has said that the political environment in the country is not conducive for women to participate in politics. Maryam Idris Uthman, said the organisation propagates gender equality and also champions the cause of children.
President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday called for protecting democracy and democratic institutions adding that the elected assemblies and the government will complete their five-year mandated tenure regardless of what the opponents are
The new body will be known officially as the U.N. Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, although officials say it will be referred to as U.N. Women (www.unwomen.org). It will consolidate four separate U.N.
The recently approved national budget on the Indian Ocean island state Mauritius is seen as unique in an African context. It puts women and gender issues right at its centre of focus. Gender activists are thrilled as money finally follows policy statements.
Member of parliament Eva Abdulla, who belongs to Nasheed’s Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) – which won power in May 2009, thus ending the 30- year-old reign of dictator Maumoon Abdul Gayoom – said the government firmly believes in affirmative action policies benefiting wome