URGENT ACTION must be taken to get more women into the Dáil, the National Women’s Council of Ireland said last night. The call came after an announcement by Labour Party TD Liz McManus that she would not seek re-election to her seat in Wicklow.
The Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Mrs. Josephine Anenih, has promised to cross party barriers to ensure that women seeking elective offices in the 2011 general election are empowered to adequately match their male counterparts.
As per a study conducted by NGO Navsarjan, elected women gram panchayat members from the marginalised and minority communities fight much more than just the elections.According to the report, they also fight for acceptance and basic rights, rather unlike someone representing the masses.
For female candidates, this campaign presents a paradox. More than 430 women — a record number, up nearly one-quarter from the last election — are seeking seats in the 249-member lower house of parliament, in voting to be held Sept.
Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi today said more women should join politics to reduce corruption. "Corruption is much less where involvement of women is more in politics," Youth Congress leader Debolina Das quoted Gandhi as telling party workers here.
At their annual Axim Area Women Fellowship Convention of the Sacred Action Church at Half Assini, the District Chief Executive (DCE) of Jomoro, Mr Victor Nyianyi Kablan, has advised that women should be unrestrained in taking up political roles.
When a record 101 women won seats in Indonesia's House of Representatives in the 2009 election, development groups said it was proof that the world's largest Muslim nation was ready to back female politicians and a gender quota system that the country had recently rejected wasn't in fact n