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April 28, 2014
Women Candidates selected to run for Labour in the Local Elections 2014, UK

As it stands today, Tuesday 29th April 2014, 187 Labour Party candidates have been selected to run in the Local Elections in May 2014. Currently 55 of these candidates are women which is just under thirty percent (29.4%).

April 2, 2014
Why Fianna Fáil isn’t meeting local election target on female candidates

In the halls of Leinster House, Constance Markievicz cuts a lonely figure as the only portrait of a female parliamentarian in the entire building.

March 30, 2014
Husbands of women candidates in Bihar stand by their wives

Husbands of the women contesting the Lok Sabha elections from Bihar are going all out to support their wives.Take the case of Sailesh Kumar, husband of Misa Bharti and son-in-law of RJD chief Lalu Prasad.

March 30, 2014
If not Hillary Clinton, then Sarah Palin for 2016, poll shows

When it comes to women in the White House, Sarah Palin takes the cake in Americans’ eyes, a new poll found.

March 28, 2014
Women candidates get help from government in Indonesia

Camellia Lubis, a 28-year-old dangdut singer popularly known as Camel Petir (Thunder), is one of 2,467 women legislative candidates vying for a seat in the House of Representatives.

March 28, 2014
California's 'Close The Gap' Tour Is Demanding Gender Equality In Politics

California boasts two female senators.

We are the only state to advance women's reproductive rights in the last few years.

March 19, 2014
Fianna Fáil ‘disappointed’ as it fails on female candidate targets

Fianna Fáil has conceded it is “disappointed” with the proportion of female candidates it is running in the local and European elections in

March 12, 2014
Hillary Is Using the Internet to Accomplish Everything She Was Told She Could Never Do

Many Republicans rubbed their hands with glee in anticipation of the so-called "secret Clinton files" in the hopes that the documents would reveal some nasty

March 6, 2014
Kirsten Gillibrand's goal: Recruit female candidates, win elections

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has been called a “sleeper” candidate for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, but the New York Democrat doesn’t sound as though the White House is in her sights.