August 5, 2024
How female politicians’ first names can work for and against them, according to science
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July 23, 2024
Book on Brazilian women’s first steps in politics launched
In the run-up to Brazil’s municipal elections, FGV Press has just published an intense and long book featuring the moving stories of a hundred Brazilian women from all over the country who decided to tackle various obstacles and fight for a place in pol
Raging, radical and ready for change: France’s angry green women are an inspiration to us all
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July 15, 2024
Raging, radical and ready for change: France’s angry green women are an inspiration to us all
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Women in politics: How far has Asia come?
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July 11, 2024
Women in politics: How far has Asia come?
Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, the first woman to lead Japan's capital, clinched a third term on Sunday to extend her time
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Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, the first woman to lead Japan's capital, clinched a third term on Sunday to extend her time
June 27, 2024
Women 'changing the game' in Mongolia's patriarchal politics
Mongolians go to the polls in parliamentary elections on Friday, with the ruling Mongolian People's Party widely expected to retain a majority it has held for eight years.
June 9, 2024
Gender Parity
PAKISTAN ranks low on the Gender Gap Index in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report, 2023. On women’s political empowerment, it ranked 95th out of 146 countries, with only a handful of women occupying senior, managerial, policy- and decision-making posts.
May 5, 2024
Where are the women in Ghana’s new cabinet?
In September 2024 a long anticipated Affirmative Action Bill (AA Bill) was signed into law in Ghana. But you would hardly know it in early 2025 following parliamentary and presidential elections and the appointment of new cabinet ministers.
April 19, 2024
General Elections 2024 | The missing women in Indian politics
‘The political system is misfiring’: Why young women don’t see themselves becoming politicians
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April 16, 2024
‘The political system is misfiring’: Why young women don’t see themselves becoming politicians
One hundred and twenty-two years after women in Australia won the right to vote and stand for parliament, it’s fair to say we’ve come a long way on women’s representation in politics.
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One hundred and twenty-two years after women in Australia won the right to vote and stand for parliament, it’s fair to say we’ve come a long way on women’s representation in politics.
Sudanese women trapped between conflict and political marginalization in peace negotiations
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March 25, 2024
Sudanese women trapped between conflict and political marginalization in peace negotiations
In the ongoing war in Sudan, there is an insufficiently narrated tragedy—the plight of women who are paying a hefty price for this war and are simultaneously being kept from the table in the discussion of how this war can end.
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In the ongoing war in Sudan, there is an insufficiently narrated tragedy—the plight of women who are paying a hefty price for this war and are simultaneously being kept from the table in the discussion of how this war can end.