Patriarchy and Female leadership: A Privilege Not Given
I was at a policy dialogue event recently in Abuja, with great panelists discussing the role of gender in Nigeria’s foreign policy. A very well-coordinated guest stood up to explain how women have played bad roles in leadership positions, citing the example of Hillary Clinton and her role in the invasion of Afghanistan. It…
Samoa Finally Has A Female Prime Minister: The Man Who Was In Power Refused To Hand It Over For 4 Months
After 33 years, the Polynesian Island has changed its governing party as well as its prime minister: In May 2021, Fiame Naomi Mata’afa was the first woman elected to office in Samoa. However, she was not allowed to enter the parliament on that day, and she had to swear in outside the building where she had…
Generation Equality Forum: How It All Started and Where We’re Heading
It is in France, a country with a longstanding connection to liberty and equality – Liberté, egalité, fraternité were the values through which the French Republic was born after the French Revolution in 1789 – that the Generation Equality Forum of 2021 took place. The aforementioned is a global meeting organized by UN Women which associated…
Growing Gender Inequality in India: Slips 28 Spots in The Global Gender Gap Index
Discrimination against women and girls has always been a ubiquitous phenomenon of Indian society. India’s progress towards gender parity measured by the World Economic Forum in 2021 is greatly discouraging. India ranks 140 of 156 countries in the Global Gender Gap Report 2021 by the World Economic Forum. It has slipped 28 spots compared to the…
Significant Decline in Women’s Political Representation: World Economic Forum
According to the Global Gender Gap Report 2021 by the World Economic Forum, this year, women’s political empowerment has significantly declined globally. The gender gap in politics is the widest out of the four key areas studied – Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival, and Political Empowerment. The Global Gender Gap Index or…
A Critical Point To Think About Gender Leadership Gap
The lack of representation of women in leadership positions in both public and private sectors or gender leadership gap is a subject of research. In the United States, women hold only 19 per cent of board seats, 15 per cent of executive officer positions in Fortune 500 companies. The number of female CEOs at…
The Battle That Led to the Voting Rights of Women in the United Kingdom
The relentless fight to win the voting rights of women in the United Kingdom began around mid 19th Century. Under the 1918 Representation of the People Act, Women won the right to vote in the UK in 1918. Representation of the People Act was a pivotal milestone, but this act granted voting rights only to women over the age…
Tawakkol Karman : The First Arab Woman to Win a Nobel
Born and raised in a country where women were severely oppressed, discriminated and were deprived of basic human rights, Tawakkol Karman, a women journalist in her twenties started fighting against the dictator president Shalleh, in favor of establishing women’s rights, democracy and freedom of expression in her country, Yemen. Tawakkol Karman was the first Arab woman…
