Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post

Just over one-third of the members in Germany's newly elected parliament are women. That's troubling — and not at all representative of our society, DW's Melina Grundmann writes.

Latin America’s first gender quota was supposed to increase women’s presence in politics. Thirty years later, that vision has stagnated.

By William Pesek

Why does the gender balance among politicians vary so substantially across different locations?

I am an unabashed child of the 1960s. I marched. I chanted. I tried to levitate the Pentagon and shake all the bad out of it while on a particularly fun acid excursion.

Nigeria has very few women participating in politics. Only seven out of 109 senators and 22 of the 360 House of Representatives members are women.

The country infamous for forced sterilisations will face the choice of two ‘anti-gender’ candidates in run-off elections in June.

(CNN)- Samoa's first female Prime Minister-elect has had a strange inaugural week in office.

New York City has had 108 mayors. Not a single one of them has been a woman—but that could change in 2021 as three female candidates emerge as strong, competitive contenders in the June 22 Democratic primary.