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Gender and politics is the focus of the journals Politics & Gender [15] and the European Journal of Politics and Gender. Gender and politics is also the title of a book series, Gender and Politics, which launched in 2012 and published dozens of volumes over the next several years. [2]
But despite relatively greater freedom of movement for Spartan women, their role in politics was the same as Athenian women. [17] Plato acknowledged that extending civil and political rights to women would substantively alter the nature of the household and the state. [21]
In 1907, she founded the Equality League of Self-Supporting Women, later called the Women's Political Union, whose membership was based on working women, both professional and industrial. The Equality League initiated the practice of holding suffrage parades and organized the first open air suffrage rallies in thirty years. [ 218 ]
After several election cycles of progress in expanding the number of women in Congress, and following a record-breaking cycle for female governors, the 2024 election saw this progress stall, as ...
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday addressed Vice President Harris’s loss in the 2024 presidential election, calling it a setback for gender representation in politics, during a ...
The Pacific Islands have the lowest proportion of female members of parliament in the world at 8%. Globally, women make up 27% of parliaments worldwide, and only 13 countries are close to 50%.
In 2021, as stated by the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University, 27 Black women will serve in the 117th Congress, doubling the number of Black women to serve in 2011. [36] In 2014, Mia Love was the first black woman to be elected to Congress for the Republican Party . [ 37 ]
As for the future of women in politics in Japan, Prime Minister Shinzō Abe announced in his speech at the Japan National Press Club on 19 April 2013 that a major goal of his national growth strategy is "having no less than 30 per cent of leadership positions in all areas of society filled by women by 2020." [182]