12 Mar 2012 - As part of cerebrations marking International Women's Day in Sierra Leone, the Gender Specialist for the recently convened Sierra Leone National Conference on Development and Transformation has called on the government to include women in the decision-making process for the betterm
13 Mar 2012 - A voluntary scheme to get German companies to introduce gender quotas for women in management has failed to bear fruit, but divisions within the German government are hindering progress.
12 Mar 2012 - Women's participation in national decision making has shaped, and continues to shape, the political direction and destiny of Ghana.
13 Mar 2012 - Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s Oscar-winning documentary ‘Saving Face’ has rightly brought laurels to her and to her teammates for highlighting globally an issue that had hitherto remained unnoticed and unreported even in Pakistan.
12 Mar 2012 - Dozens of women seeking to vie for political positions have allegedly been 'bought off' by politicians for fear of competition in the next general elec
The newly constituted 16th Assembly of Uttar Pradesh has 35 women members, that is the highest number of women MLAs in the history of the state Assembly since Independence.
For Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, women are tougher opponents than men in politics.
“Women can straightaway walk into kitchen and convince the household on their ideas and this is not that easy for men,” he says.
10 Mar 2012 - Hundreds of women gathered at the first international conference of Hizb Ettahrir in Tunis today.