May be it's the concept of 'Bharatiya Nari' that often stops us from associating women to burning issues like corruption. May be its ironical to boast of the fact that we still stick on to such a value system today.
The next generation of Algeria's elected bodies will include more women than before. A new law, which establishes a quota for female candidates, will come into force with the 2012 parliamentary vote.
A number of Swiss women's organisations have joined forces in an attempt to convince voters to elect more women to the country's heavily male-dominated parliament.
Egyptian women currently face numerous threats that will not only destroy the goals of equality, freedom and change voiced in the January revolution, but the advances women have made over the last century.
West African leaders express worry over Liberia's political future, it looks like the country's politicians themselves are not worried as they continue to campaign for the October 11 poll to head to the Executive Mansion in Monrovia.
Since the end of Soviet era quotas, the number of women in Russian politics has declined. What will bring them back?
The status of women in Tunisia has for decades been among the most advanced in the Arab world, but even after this year's democratic revolution politics has remained a man's world.
Denmark has elected its first female prime minister, ousting the right-wing government from power after 10 years of pro-market reforms and ever-stricter controls on immigration.
Three women were poised Friday to take a lead role in Danish politics, pledging that their parties would seek a unitary approach to end a decade of centre-right policymaking.