How to get women to the top? Set quotas, says UK campaigner Cherie Blair
Belinda Goldsmith
2015-11-02
As a young, ambitious British lawyer, Cherie Blair was firmly against imposing quotas to help advance women's careers but 30 years later she is happy to admit she was wrong |
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Georgia Edges Towards More Equal Parliament
2015-10-29
Politicians seem prepared to consider a measure that would guarantee women a quarter of seats in the legislature
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LSE study calls for gender quotas to place women in positions of power
2015-10-13
Academics’ report proposes quotas for senior positions in range of sectors including politics, economy, law, media, culture and communications |
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New Australia Cabinet Features First Female Defense Minister
2015-09-22
Australia swore in its first female defense minister, Senator Marise Payne, who will oversee open-ended military engagements in two countries |
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Strategic planning of Task Force group for Women's Political Participation
2015-09-10
The group are discussing its legislative amendment on introducing gender quotas as a temporary measure for increasing the number of women in parliament of Georgia |
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Blazing trails, first Roma women elected to local council in Moldova
2015-09-04
Overcoming barriers on account of both gender and ethnicity, two ethnic Roma women ran for local office for the first time |
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Number of women leaders around the world has grown, but they’re still a small group
Lauren Kent
2015-08-04
There are currently 18 female world leaders, including 12 female heads of government and 11 elected female heads of state (some leaders are both, and figurehead monarchs are not included) |
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Julia Gillard says Australia has gone backwards in political gender gap
2015-07-29
Former prime minister says Australia has slid in global rankings ‘as other nations have gone ahead’ and both major parties need to boost women in their ranks |
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Tasmania announces gender equality plan to have 50% women on boards
2015-07-02
Membership of government boards and committees should be at least 50% female by 2020, says minister for women Jacquie Petrusma
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