While Livni appears to be the front-runner in today's vote, her bid to become Israel's second female prime minister -- Golda Meir held the post from 1969 to 1974 -- is hindered by doubts about her lack of military experience.
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Touted as the new Golda Meir, former Mossad agent-turned-politician Tzipi Livni emerged tonight as Israel’s second woman prime minister, less than a decade after she first entered parliament. Israeli television stations announced that exit polls showed a victory for the 50-year-old mother of two in Kadima party elections to choose a successor to Ehud Olmert.
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Touted as the new Golda Meir, former Mossad agent-turned-politician Tzipi Livni emerged tonight as Israel’s second woman prime minister, less than a decade after she first entered parliament. Israeli television stations announced that exit polls showed a victory for the 50-year-old mother of two in Kadima party elections to choose a successor to Ehud Olmert.
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While women's rights advocates admit that Livni, who won a razor-thin primary against Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz on Wednesday, isn't what they would call a flag-waving feminist, they're convinced she carries her feminist credentials proudly - in her business-suit pocket. That Livni ran her Kadima primary campaign on security and economic issues, with almost no reference to explicitly feminist issues, was born out of necessity, the feminists assert, and they don't hold it against her.
While women's rights advocates admit that Livni, who won a razor-thin primary against Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz on Wednesday, isn't what they would call a flag-waving feminist, they're convinced she carries her feminist credentials proudly - in her business-suit pocket. That Livni ran her Kadima primary campaign on security and economic issues, with almost no reference to explicitly feminist issues, was born out of necessity, the feminists assert, and they don't hold it against her.
As a female Palestinian MP in Israel's Knesset, this activist has taken up the battle for rights on two fronts.Haneen Zoubi has that most incongruous of job descriptions: a Palestinian member of the Israeli parliament. She is also the first woman elected from an Arab party to a parliament increasingly dominated by right-wing Jewish men.
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As a female Palestinian MP in Israel's Knesset, this activist has taken up the battle for rights on two fronts.Haneen Zoubi has that most incongruous of job descriptions: a Palestinian member of the Israeli parliament. She is also the first woman elected from an Arab party to a parliament increasingly dominated by right-wing Jewish men.
To read the full article please visit The Age website.
On a cold night in the centre of Jerusalem this week, they sang, swayed and danced, united in outrage at the exclusion of women and growing gender segregation in the public arena."We won't stop singing or showing women's faces or dancing until this ugly phenomenon which is foreign to Judaism or to any democratic society has vanished," said Micky Gidzin, of Be Free
On a cold night in the centre of Jerusalem this week, they sang, swayed and danced, united in outrage at the exclusion of women and growing gender segregation in the public arena."We won't stop singing or showing women's faces or dancing until this ugly phenomenon which is foreign to Judaism or to any democratic society has vanished," said Micky Gidzin, of Be Free
For years, Israeli women have been pressured into moving to the rear of public buses serving strictly religious Jews. Now, in confrontations reminiscent of the era of Rosa Parks, women are pushing back.
Israeli women protesting a gender-segregation campaign by ultra-Orthodox Jews sat at the front of a bus in Jerusalem on Jan 1.
For years, Israeli women have been pressured into moving to the rear of public buses serving strictly religious Jews. Now, in confrontations reminiscent of the era of Rosa Parks, women are pushing back.
Israeli women protesting a gender-segregation campaign by ultra-Orthodox Jews sat at the front of a bus in Jerusalem on Jan 1.
This paper highlights the importance of conducting gender audits of national budgets. It describes the concept of gender audits, provides a list of questions to guide a gender audit, and examines the situation of women with respect to the economy.
This paper highlights the importance of conducting gender audits of national budgets. It describes the concept of gender audits, provides a list of questions to guide a gender audit, and examines the situation of women with respect to the economy.
This report describes the best practices of building successful political coalitions and examines issues that political parties and other organizations should consider when attempting to build a new coalition or strengthen an existing one.
This report describes the best practices of building successful political coalitions and examines issues that political parties and other organizations should consider when attempting to build a new coalition or strengthen an existing one.
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