Thirty nine women in the Ampara district have come forward to contest the forthcoming Local Government election, Ceido Sri Lanka Ampara District Coordinator S. Ravichandran said.Ceido Sri Lanka is striving to increase female representation in Local Government Institutions.
From torture in a dictatorship-era jail cell to the helm of Latin America's largest nation, it's been an unlikely political rise for President Dilma Rousseff, a former Marxist rebel turned career technocrat who claimed Brazil's seat of power Saturday.In becoming the country's 36th president, Rous
Republican women, once a dying breed at the state Capitol, are makinga comeback. With the appointment of Jean White of Hayden to the Senate this week, there will be three Republican women in the Senate GOP caucus this year — triple the number in recent years.
It's a win-win situation for the fairer sex in Himachal Pradesh at the end of polls to Panchayati Raj Institutions. With 50% seats for women reserved in PRIs for the first time, roughly 58-60% women have wonseats in the state, marginalizing the men significantly.
When Mary Fallin won the governor’s race in November with 60 percent of the vote, she became the first female governor in Oklahoma’s history. The election itself was an extraordinary one, with two exceptional women — Fallin and Lt. Gov.
It may be the country's 14th by-election since 2008, but the Tenang contest on Jan 30 is likely to be the first between two women.No political party has announced its candidate yet, but there are already signs that both Barisan Nasional and PAS could field a woman candidate.
Ahead of 2011 elections, an aspirant of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mrs. Olayinka Babalola has called on women to participate actively in politics at all levels in order to deliver the dividends of democracy.
Not only did New Democrat gender equity provisions rule out some winnable male candidates in the last election, now they're causing heartburn at party HQ, where the rules dictate either the sitting male president or treasurer must vacate his place for a woman, if the next leader is a guy.