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On October 24, the National Democratic Institute (NDI) will present its third annual Madeleine K. Albright Grant to the 50/50 Group of Sierra Leone. Founded in 2000 to promote greater participation of women in politics, the 50/50 Group has grown from a handful of women meeting in borrowed space in Freetown to a nationally recognized organization actively engaged in building a new post-war Sierra Leone in which women can share equally with men in the political decisions that affect their lives.

Hillary Clinton has made a political calculation to capture the women’s vote by playing gender politics to make herself the first woman President.
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Representing the congressional district of San Francisco, Nancy Pelosi last year became the first woman speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives—the highest-ranking woman in government. Known for her energy, passion, and ambition, Pelosi, 67, established herself as a Democratic leader in Congress by promoting women's health, stem cell research, workers' rights, and the expansion of educational opportunities
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Part of the excitement around Hillary's campaign is that she genuinely could become the first female president in American history - in a country with an appalling record on promoting women to senior political positions, Condi Rice notwithstanding.
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Albright and 75 other women leaders met in New York for a three-day summit to address global threats in addition to terrorism, including climate change, economic insecurity and crimes against humanity.
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The Pipeline to Politics Project conference seeks to empower women to become leaders in the political and civic arenas, said Hannah Brenner, director of Women’s Leadership Programs at the Carl Albert Congressional and Studies Center.
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Canada's first female prime minister has launched a spirited defence of the woman who hopes to become the United States' first female president. Kim Campbell says the current American primaries are a good example of the challenges facing women in politics, and ridicules the suggestion that Hillary Clinton's recent tears were a manufactured attempt to stir voter sympathy.
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Women have made up the majority of voters in primary elections for years. But in a topsy-turvy campaign - now shifting to large and diverse states such as California - they are baffling pollsters, pundits and campaign strategists, and surprising perhaps even themselves.
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Women heavily dominated the turnout in every state, accounting for between 55 percent and 62 percent of the electorate, according to a gender analysis by EMILY's List, the Washington, D.C.-based political action committee that backs pro-choice female Democrats.
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