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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

Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard has been sworn into office, making her the first woman elected to the post in the nation's history.  She called an election after ousting former PM Kevin Rudd in an internal Labor party revolt in June.

On Oct. 3 Brazil could become the third country in the subregion to elect a woman president within the space of just a few years.

So the Swiss have joined an elite club by having more women than men in their government – no mean feat considering women only gained the vote in Switzerland in 1971.

In the mudslinging world of politics, women get sullied much more often than men, a group of advocates for female politicians says.

Latin America is no stranger to female leaders, but not many can match the radical political trajectory of Dilma Rousseff, the 62-year-old onetime Marxist guerrilla leader who stands to become Brazil’s first female president.