Substack: Stepping into the biggest election year in history with hope

In this article published in WomenLead's Substack, Akshi highlights the interview on RepresentWomen's Gender Parity Index. Read a excerpt below:

Last year, we launched a new series of interviews with the aim to understand the work being done by different initiatives working to close the gender gaps in politics in different parts of the world. (If you have recommendations on whom we should be interviewing next, we are only an email away!)

In the first set of interviews, we got the opportunity to go #BTS to learn about a programme designed to speak politics to young girls, what it takes to prepare a gender scorecard for different states in the USA, and the importance of taking a norms approach to understand women’s experience in politics.

Here are the links to all of them. We hope these serve as an inspiring and hopeful start to 2024!

In August, RepresentWomen, a USA-based organisation working on improving women’s political representation, released the tenth edition of its flagship annual publication, the Gender Parity Index (GPI). The index assesses and tracks women’s representation in elected office at the national, state, and local levels of government in the USA.

Read the full article here.