Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu on Aug. 27 called on women and young people to get more involved in politics, on the second day of the ongoing “justice congress” in the northwestern Turkish province of Çanakkale. 

Politicians in York have added their voices to calls for better gender representation in local government, after newly-published research about the imbalance.

An old boys’ network in local political parties is deterring women from standing as councillors, a report has said.

The history of women in American politics is just as long as that of the nation as a whole.

Papua New Guinea's prime minister says he's looking to revive a proposal to reserve 22 seats in the country's parliament for women.

AMMAN –– The overall experience of women in the latest elections, whether as voters or candidates, was “positive”, despite some shortcomings related to legal loopholes, according to a coalition tasked with monitoring the elections from a gender perspective.