Progressive Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won her race for a U.S. House seat in New York’s 14th District on Tuesday, becoming the youngest woman ever elected to Congress.
With women making up only 20 percent of Congress, there are many types of women — especially women of color — who have never been represented on Capitol Hill.
To mark the 100th anniversary of the first women in this country winning the right to stand for election to parliament, the House of Commons will host
Even before the votes are in, the numbers prove it: 2018 is the Year of the Woman.
Female politicians made history this week in Israel with a record of at least 11 women chosen to head cities and local councils across the country, five more than in the previous municipal elections.
Daw Saw Yee and Daw Ohn Shwe have many things in common, but until recently their paths had not crossed.
By Susan Chira
Conventional wisdom on women and politics goes like this:
“We young people, individually and collectively are a piece of peace”, said Lynrose Jane Dumandan Genon, a representative of the Young Women for Peace and Leadership programme of the Global Network for Women Peacebuilders in the Philippines, speaking
Halima Askari became the first woman head of the Provincial Council in Afghanistan’s conservative Wardak province in 2017. She is part of a new generation of women leaders who, little by little, are pushing for the transformation of governance.
Sao Paulo - Joenia Wapichana never thought she would get into politics.
The 43-year-old indigenous lawyer also never imagined she'd make history, not just once but on three occasions.