Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post

Au Kirghizstan, le grand nombre d’hommes en politique est un problème. Mais cette histoire est celle de « petites » femmes qui font de grandes choses.

Less than a fifth of candidates in Japan’s upcoming election are female, unchanged from the last vote four years ago, indicating the percentage of women in one of the world’s most male-dominated parliaments is unlikely to increase.

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.