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Until the war in Tigray started in November 2020, Ethiopia was a favoured investment destination.

Given Mexico's progress in this area, we don't even lead North America. Gender quotas are an effective solution.

Linda Reynolds’ newfound enthusiasm for quotas ignores the many reasons women are turning away from her party.

If we want more women with children to become MPs, we need family-friendly policies for parents like me in the Commons.

In 2019, Aiko Usui was 28 years old and running for a seat in a ward assembly election in Tokyo. But instead of being treated as an aspiring politician by some of the voters she was canvassing, she instead felt like a pop idol being targeted for abuse.

It's been four years since the gender parity law was passed in Japan, with an aim of fielding an equal number of female and male candidates in elections. Still, the male-dominated political environment has not changed.

Nigeria has one of the lowest rates of female political representation in the world. This culture is established and reinforced early.

During the 2020 caucus cycle, I heard it a lot, the refrain of the cautious Democratic voter. I want to vote for her, but I don’t think she can win. It wasn’t, people reasoned, because they were sexist, but they worried that America was.

(CNN)In 2018, Stacey Abrams came within 1.4 percentage points of clinching the governor's mansion in Georgia. Her stinging loss to Republican Brian Kemp is still on the hearts of many of her most fervent supporters some four years later.