While women are making strides in business leadership, they are facing challenges in another important sphere; politics. The Southern African Development Community (SADC) calls for at least 50% of women representation in government by 2015.
It is an indisputable fact that in Tanzania, as in most other developing countries, women are still largely absent from higher positions of leadership in the political arena.
Almost 50 percent of the country’s population is women, but their representation in the parliament is only 14 percent. In the local government, the figures are dismal.
Bahrein should adopt a women's quota in parliament to ensure equal representation in the country's legislative body during the upcoming elections, say activists.
The Personal Laws Amendment Bill, 2010 seeks to amend the Guardians and Wards Act (GWA), 1890 and the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act (HAMA), 1956. It seeks to allow the mother along with the father to be appointed as a guardian, making the process gender-neutral.
When leading prominent Iraqi women leaders from all across the country gathered in Baghdad in June 28, 2010 they had only one question on their mind: Ela Mata? Until when?
It’s almost forty years since Australian women were officially granted equal pay for equal work by the Australian Industrial Relations Commission. But pay equity is still a problem, with women working full time earning only 83 cents in the dollar earned by men.
More women are needed to make up for a shortfall in diplomats, according to the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Dr Anwar Gargash.Speaking yesterday at an annual gathering of Emirati ambassadors and heads of mission, Dr Gargash said the UAE was planning new embassies in East Africa and Sout
Ninety years after the 19th Amendment enshrined women’s right to political participation in the US Constitution, women may be having one of their most influential years yet in American politics, analysts say.The first 50 years of American women’s suffrage was “votes without leverage,” according t