The Government is currently exploring the adoption of a quota system to increase women's level of representation in the Senate, to at least 30 per cent.
Following the resignation of Mexico's attorney general Thursday, Marisela Morales was quickly nominated to fill the post. Michelle Obama recently lauded her 'unfailing drive.
Egyptian women played a critical role in the revolutionary protests that brought down former president Hosni Mubarak last month. But as Egypt transitions toward a new government, questions are being raised about whether women will gain a stronger role in politics.
The women movement is advocating for a female national vice-president this year. But the women movement was also doubtful that political parties would adopt females as presidential candidates in this years’ elections.
Zimbabwe's veteran women politicians fear there are no younger women coming up through the ranks to replace them. Measures to improve women's representation have achieved little and young women are absent from the traditional entry points into politics.
Women are better represented in this federal election than in previous campaigns, but many are running in ridings where their party doesn’t stand a chance.
Hundreds of women and children were blocking a main coastal highway in Syria to protest the arrest of dozens of people from nearby villages in an ongoing crackdown.
Turkish women's groups have been traditionally divided along ideological lines.
Sidelined within weeks of helping lead the revolution, women face new challenges in post-Mubarak politics.