Latin America is no stranger to female leaders, but not many can match the radical political trajectory of , the 62-year-old onetime Marxist guerrilla leader who stands to become ’s first female president.
Afghanistan’s army got its first female officers in decades last week when 29 women graduated in a class of new recruits who hope to help take the lead role in national security from foreign forces by 2014.
WOMEN candidates dismissed fears last night that Bahrain's democracy is sidelining them during next month's elections due to their decreased number. They s
America's women, who typically are more likely to vote Democratic, have emerged as a key swing voting bloc that could sway this fall's midterm congressional elections.
All eyes are on Brazil's presidential elections which were held today. As it stands, Dilma Rousseff, a 62-year-old economist, will become the nation's first woman president.
Women are now making a mark in Pakistan's male-dominated political arena as seats have been reserved for them and candidates have to hold a graduation degree to contest polls.
Powered by progressive, neoconservative capital and soft power techniques Green Party candidate Marina Silva sent shock waves through Brazil's male dominated political culture by winning 19 million votes in Sunday's presidential election.
Civic organisations in Tanzania have urged the media to give equal access to women and men politicians ahead of the country’s October 31, national elections to facilitate attainment of the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development’s goals of gender parity in political decision-making by 2015.