A new blog post on the state of women’s leaders published by the Pew Research Center – a fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world – compliments the statistics captured in the

“We will never be a successful society in which all are able to achieve their potential until we have equality for women”.

Taiwan’s top two political parties have each nominated a woman to run in the 2016 presidential election.

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Throughout her impressive career, Barbara Mikulski, the senior U.S. senator from Maryland, has been one of the fiercest advocates in Congress for the advancement of women and girls.

Nearly 30 members of Niger’s national assembly discussed the relationship between gender and Islam during a one-day forum organized by NDI in Sadoré (40 km from Niamey, the capital of Niger) on March 7.

On February 6, 1918, a select group gained suffrage but it took 10 more years before all women had the same voting rights as men. Yet at the last election, in 2010, more than nine million women didn’t use that hard-won right.