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Jul 28, 2020 · But 2020 has the possibility to intensify the split, bringing into the Democratic Party groups of women who have traditionally resisted its calls. As they race to achieve historic victories for ...
19 hours ago · A new report fills some of the knowledge gaps across the world about the challenges and potential solution for threats towards women who are politically-active, edited by Blavatnik School researchers Hannah Phillips and Rosario Grimà Algora and written by Master of Public Policy students Amna Baig, Prakriti Bhattarai, Isatou Bokum, Jaclyn Corin and Ema Grajcarova.
Aug 1, 2024 · Recent reporting by The Wall Street Journal found that men between the ages of 18 and 30 support Trump and Republican control of Congress this year, unlike in 2020, when they supported Biden and ...
The “Women in politics: 2020” map, created by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and UN Women, presents global rankings for women in executive, government, and parliamentary positions as of 1 January 2020. It shows all-time highs for the number of countries with women Heads of State and/or Heads of Government, and for the global share of women ministers, parliamentary speakers, and ...
- Challenges to Conventional Scholarship
- Fast Track
- Religiosity
- Democratization
- Post-Conflict Impacts
- African Influences on Women’s Rights Globally
- Conclusions
The literature exploring these developments has challenged conventional explanations of women’s political empowerment that has, until very recently, mostly drawn on women’s experiences in Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand. The factors that had, for example, traditionally been used to explain rates of female legislative representation...
The gradual increase of female representation in Scandinavia used to be the model that everyone looked to in the past, when the Nordic countries were alone in enjoying the highest rates of female representation. This Nordic model has now been replaced by what Danish political scientist Drude Dahlerup has called the ‘fast track’ model, which is evid...
The African experiences are also challenging conventional understandings of the impact of religion on women’s rights. Religiosity and, in particular Islam, has been seen by comparative scholars like Pippa Norris and Ron Inglehart as constraints on women’s political representation. However, many of the countries that have adopted quotas in Africa ha...
The literature on the most recent third wave of democratization has shown that its impacts on gender equality were initially rather disappointing in Latin America and East Europe. In some of these countries, women’s movements declined and women’s organizations and their leaders were coopted by political parties and governments as political processe...
The changes in women’s political advancement have been most noticeable in post-conflict countries, especially after 2000. This is also something that was not evident when studies of women and politics focused only on the global North. Post-conflict countries in Africa have twice as many women in legislatures as non-post conflict countries in the co...
In addition to these post-conflict dynamics, there are yet other areas where the scholarship in Africa is shaping and challenging broader understandings of gender and politics. One of these has to do with African influences on global women’s rights discourse. There has long been a tendency in Western scholarship to see international influences in w...
Research on women and politics in Africa has made important contributions to both scholarship on Africa, on African politics and the more general literature on gender and politics. This area of study is fast evolving and has made key advances in helping explain the increasing rates of female legislative representation; the role of women in conflict...
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Mar 11, 2020 · [Press Release] Women’s representation in political decision-making continues to increase but at a dragging pace, with three-quarters of parliamentary seats still held by men, according to new data presented in the 2020 edition of the IPU UN Women map of Women in Politics. The data’s publication coincides with the 25-year review of the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action ...
