30 Mar 2012 - Women activists have identified financial constraints as a major obstacle to women’s active participation in politics.
29 Mar 2012 - If you didn’t realize women don’t rule the world (yet), you’re not alone. In front of a full house at the 92nd Street Y Wednesday night, Chelsea Clinton made a confession.
Sunshine Coast MP Fiona Simpson will become the first female Speaker of the Queensland parliament. Ms Simpson has promised the new Liberal National Party dominated parliament will be held to the highest standards.
6 April 2012 - “We are not women, we are Egyptians”. That is what a young woman in Tahrir Square said to me on 25 January 2012, celebrating a year of the Revolution, when I enquired about the group of women she was with.
8 April 2012 - The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) says Sri Lanka still performs poorly on women’s political participation despite relative gains against MDG indicators on gender parity in education and wage employment.
7 April 2012 - At all times the Armenian woman has had her part in an important event in Armenia’s history, the ruling coalition’s Republican Party of Armenia MP Karine Achemyan said during a press conference on Saturday.
8 April 2012 - Thailand and 10 other Asian nations have pledged to find ways to enhance gender equality in politics, according to a statement from a regional conference in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia.