Turkey’s political stalemate following the recent elections has overshadowed a key development; the near doubling of women deputies in the Ankara Parliament (Meclis): 1
Fatma Sahin has a unique position in Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's new cabinet: she is the only woman minister. That represents a drop from the previous cabinet, which included two.
Zambia's 14-percent female parliament makes it a regional laggard and leaves women in politics struggling against social disapproval, including by other women.
Muscat: Twenty candidates, including two women, have withdrawn their candidature from the elections for the seventh term of the Majlis Al Shura in Oman.
On Tuesday, Hina Rabbani Khar became the first woman and the youngest parliamentarian ever in Pakistan's history to hold the post of Foreign Minister.
Does this mean that we start cheering? No.
Libyan men have had to reassess how they view the opposite sex since the start of the uprising, and when the dust settles the role of women in the north African country may well have changed for good.
DUBAI: Women are pushing forward on gaining more rights within their respective societies across the Islamic world, professor Amina Jamal of Ryerson University in Canada said at a seminar on Islam.
Liberia's Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf pledged on Tuesday to step up the fight against unemployment in her West African nation if re-elected later this year, saying in an interview she was confident of securing a second term.