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February 25, 2020
There are fewer Israeli women in politics than it may seem

It would appear that women in Israel have broken through the glass ceiling.

February 25, 2020
Media's gendered stereotyping was worse for Gillard than Thatcher 30 years earlier, research shows

You might think that with more women entering politics the media would have become less likely to report on the appearance, fashion choices and relationship status of female prime ministers.

February 24, 2020
Serbia steps up efforts for gender parity

The Serbian Parliament has announced an amendment to its electoral laws with a new minimum quota of 40 per cent of candidates on electoral lists for parliamentary and local elections from the less-represented gender.

February 24, 2020
On the trail of America’s first women voters

It has long been seen as one of the flukes of American political history: For three decades after the American Revolution, the women of New Jersey had equal voting rights with men.

February 21, 2020
USA: Running for office? This company lends free clothes to women candidates

It's an offer candidates shouldn't refuse. 

February 21, 2020
Election boycott by female political prisoners held in Evin prison in Iran

Female political prisoners held in Iran’s notorious Evin Prison wrote in a statement: "It is up to us to leave their elections for themselves and remain in the real square of popular elections.

February 21, 2020
Israel’s new women’s party promises a ‘different kind of leadership’

“I don’t matter to Knesset members,” says Elana Sztokman in a campaign video for the new women’s party she just co-founded.

February 21, 2020
The future is female: How the growing political power of women will remake American politics

The most profound change in American politics today and in the years to come will result from a massive movement of women into the Democratic Party.

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