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July 29, 2013
What's Keeping Women From Getting Presidential Buzz? Hillary Clinton.

Clinton is a bigger obstacle than sexism for Elizabeth Warren, Kirsten Gillibrand, and Amy Klobuchar.

July 29, 2013
Bangladesh: Caucus for women and children’s health mooted

Bangladesh has started a process to set up a ‘parliamentary caucus’ to better coordinate parliament’s actions on reproductive, maternal and child health, Foreign Minister Dipu Moni has said.

July 29, 2013
Women in politics: The Serbia you have not heard of

Serbia, an aspiring European Union member, succeeded in increasing the percentage of women in its Parliament substantially within the last year.

July 29, 2013
USA: Why are there so few women in the Michigan legislature?

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.

July 28, 2013
Rwanda: Women Poised to Retain Majority in Parliament

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

July 28, 2013
The straight-shooting woman taking on the 'boys' club' of French politics

PARIS -- The politician known as “NKM” is a rising star in France - a tough, military-trained engineer first elected to the National Assembly at the age of just 29 and tipped by some as a future president.

July 28, 2013
Kuwait’s First Female Candidate on Women’s Participation in Elections

Kuwait City, Asharq Al-Awsat—Kuwaitis went to the polls this week to elect their third parliament in 17 months. Despite having the oldest and most powerful parliament in the Arab Gulf, Kuwait has a turbulent political scene: no parliament has served its full term since 2003.

July 28, 2013
Safa first woman to win two consecutive times, Kuwait

Manama: Safa Al Hashem has made history in Kuwait by becoming the first woman lawmaker to win seats in two consecutive parliamentary elections.

July 27, 2013
Malawi: Women Groups Receive Business Boost From Their MP

Machinga — Member of Parliament for Machinga Likwenu, Mwalone Jangiya has provided K150,000 to five women groups from Kaudzu Village at Liwonde in the district to enable them venture into small businesses to improve their livelihoods.