"She got a divorce because of her ambition and love of money," shopkeeper Dulce Álvarez told IPS, about Guatemalan former First Lady Sandra Torres' decision to end her marriage in order to sidestep the legal bar to the president's family members running for the presidency.
Ahead of this month’s G8 summit in France, parliamentarians from 35 countries have issued a strong call for leaders of the world’s major economies to focus on the role of women and girls in development.
In Los Angeles as elsewhere, fewer women seek election. More may be looking at careers in business, and they may dislike the coarseness of campaigning.
This month's state assembly elections in India has been welcomed as a vote for democracy but has also resulted in the consolidation of female politicians in prominent positions.
South Africans will take to the polls on May 18 to vote in the country’s fourth local government elections but women’s issues are glaringly absent from many of the party manifestos, observers say.
Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani lashed out at the western countries' incorrect view of women, and cautioned that this wrong view has and will further undermine family foundations and cause increasing social abnormalities in the West.
More than 56 women leaders from the grassroots have undergone training on good governance, sustainable economy and accountability.
At the headquarters of one of Egypt's many new political parties, a meeting of the women's committee is in progress. The Egyptian Social Democratic Party is a liberal, secular party and the purpose of the committee is to keep women's rights on the agenda in post-revolutionary Egypt.