There is a serious threat to Irish democracy as a result of the small number of female candidates being put forward by their parties. For example, Labour councillor Rebecca Moynihan failed to secure a nomination to run in Dublin South Central where three male candidates were selected.
The National Organization for Women Equality PAC and the Chicago NOW PAC have endorsed Carol Moseley Braun in perhaps the most important election of 2011 - mayor of Chicago.
Women should be included in political parties. We have been working in one district as a pilot program to take women who are active in politics at district levels.
“There are some defeats more triumphant than victories” said Michael de Montaigne.Indeed, the women candidates who contested in the AMU student union elections got more than victory could have given them.
UN Women (formerly UNIFEM) has expressed dismay at the abysmally low number of women who emerged candidates at the various party primaries held in the country.
Polish President Bronisław Komorowski signed a bill into law on Monday that sets a mandatory minimum quota for the number of women that must stand in political elections.
Last week, Sheikh Rachid Ghannouchi and other members of the Islamic al-Nahda Party returned to Tunisia after more than two decades in exile.
A major new study to be published in the American Journal of Political Science shows female politicians in the United States are more successful than their male counterparts in raising money, winning projects for their districts, and pushing bills through Congress.
As the state's major political party committees prepare to vote on which candidates they'll endorse for statewide judicial office this year, the list of names being circulated has -- as usual -- more men on it than women.That might be a surprise to some, given the success women have had in the la