Women are outnumbered in state legislatures around the country, particularly in Michigan, where female representation is at its lowest point in more than two decades.
With constitutional quotas for interest group seats in their favour and all political parties legally bound to respect women's quota of at least 30 per cent of their parliamentary nominees, women may retain or even widen their majority in the Chamber of Deputies after the upcoming September e
Manama: Safa Al Hashem has made history in Kuwait by becoming the first woman lawmaker to win seats in two consecutive parliamentary elections.
Their history is the history of Chile. Michelle Bachelet and Evelyn Matthei were childhood friends whose fathers became top generals on opposite sides of the country's deep political divide.
Lindy Boggs was only 24 when she arrived in Washington as the top political adviser to her husband, newly elected to Congress.
Italian politicians have reacted with anger after the country's first black minister had bananas thrown at her during a political rally.
Jordanian female parliamentarians have come a long way in the ten years since the quota system was first introduced for the 2003 elections.
'Maybe women deserve men setting the agenda," a conservative female politician said Friday as emotions ran high over a study that showed men know more about politics than women, and that the gender gap was wider in Norway than in comparable countries such as Australia.
Thursday 26 July was the last day for the election commission of the Chechen republic to receive documents from the parties participating in the u