Women can and do run for office, but their path to politics differs from the one most men follow. Women are generally asked to run and likely to have been recruited.
Burma’s president is set to appoint Khin San Yi, formerly a deputy minister of planning and economic development, as the new education minister, bringing the number of woman ministers in the government to two.
MPs are to launch an inquiry into why so many women are quitting politics as David Cameron faces calls to promote more female ministers and end "childish bullying" culture of the Commons.
When Anna Margareth Abdallah entered the Tanzanian parliament in 1975, she was one of only five female MPs.
Africa now has three female heads of state, after Catherine Samba-Panza of the Central African Republic took office in January. Though women leaders remain the exception in African politics, activists say things are looking up.
Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
A MOCK parliament for women will be conducted at the National Parliament from February 10 to 13.
Sandra Fluke, the 32-year-old activist and well-known reproductive rights advocate famous for being labeled a “slut” by Rush Limbaugh, is not running for Congress.