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Weekend Reading on Women's Representation July 10, 2020
July 10, 2020
Photo courtesy of Gender Avenger Christina Morillo, via Pexels (cropped) Dear women's representation enthusiasts, News of Supreme Court decisions and the sweltering heat of Washington, DC are hard to avoid but there have also been some developments...
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July 02, 2020
Getty Images: 116th Congress Dear women's representation enthusiasts, There were several key primaries this week with fascinating wins and losses for women candidates along with a number of landmark Supreme Court decisions that will...
Read More Add your reaction ShareWeekend Reading on Women's Representation June 26, 2020
June 26, 2020
Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas, candidate for the NY state assembly Dear women's representation enthusiasts, It's been an eventful week in the world of women's representation with some great wins for women candidates in primaries held this...
Read More Add your reaction ShareWeekend Reading on Women's Representation June 19, 2020
June 19, 2020
Dear women's representation enthusiasts, The countdown to the Seneca Falls Revisited virtual conference celebrating the centennial of suffrage continues this week with blogs by Maura Reilly about the speakers - see below - and...
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May 22, 2020
Top: Alicia Garza, Tina Tchen, Barbara Lee, Kirsten Gillibrand, Mary Robinson. Bottom: Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Pat Mitchell, Melinda Gates, Dolores Huerta, Monica Ramirez. Dear women's representation enthusiasts! There were a lot of terrific articles this...
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May 15, 2020
Illustration by Joan Wong; Photographs from Getty Images Dear women's representation enthusiasts, There were a number of great pieces tied to the celebration of Mother's Day which pointed to the contradiction between the Hallmark...
Read More Add your reaction ShareThe European Commission reaches gender parity, but individual European countries lag behind
November 01, 2019
Gender parity in the new European Commission is a huge success, as is the number of countries reaching parity for their MEPs; but, for true gender equality to exist, women must have equal access...
Read More Add your reaction ShareWhere are women in the Brexit debates?
October 30, 2019
Brexit Flags (CreativeCommons) “Flags outside Parliament” by ChiralJon is licensed under CC BY 2.0 As the UK continues to Brexit, we’ll continue to look for the women missing from the national conversation.
Read More Add your reaction ShareMāori women fought alongside non-indigenous women for suffrage, but are they fairly represented in New Zealand’s House of Representatives?
October 29, 2019
New Zealand’s actions for gender and Indigenous inclusion are working, it is now just a matter of ensuring Indigenous women have the same voice as their male and non-Indigenous counterparts.
Read More Add your reaction ShareGender Quotas for the Underrepresented? A Gender Parity Case Study: Brazil
October 28, 2019
To achieve progress in women’s representation in many countries, including Brazil, a change in systems which enable and support the disenfranchisement of women and minorities is needed.
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