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  • Patriarchy and Female leadership
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    Patriarchy and Female leadership: A Privilege Not Given

    Aisha Abdullahi Bubah / June 26, 2022

    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 was a…

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  • Samoa's first Female Prime minster Fiame Naomi Mata’afa
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    Samoa Finally Has A Female Prime Minister: The Man Who Was In Power Refused To Hand It Over For 4 Months

    Greta Maggi / August 9, 2021

    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…

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  • Generation Equality Forum 2021
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    Generation Equality Forum: How It All Started and Where We’re Heading

    Greta Maggi / July 25, 2021

    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…

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  • Growing Growing Gender Inequality in India
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    Growing Gender Inequality in India: Slips 28 Spots in The Global Gender Gap Index

    Swagata Sen / May 16, 2021

    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…

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  • Significant Decline in Women’s Political Representation:
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    Significant Decline in Women’s Political Representation: World Economic Forum

    Swagata Sen / April 17, 2021

    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…

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  • Gender Leadership Gap
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    A Critical Point To Think About Gender Leadership Gap

    Swagata Sen / April 14, 2021

        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…

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  • The Battle That Led to the Voting Rights of Women in the United Kingdom
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    The Battle That Led to the Voting Rights of Women in the United Kingdom

    Swagata Sen / January 4, 2019

    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…

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  • Tawakkol Karman, Yemen, Nobel Peace Prize winner, First Arab woman to win a nobel
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    Tawakkol Karman : The First Arab Woman to Win a Nobel

    Swagata Sen / September 27, 2018

    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…

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