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In a society where women’s voices are often marginalized in political discourse, this program stands as a beacon of empowerment | Opinion
Aguirre Ferré was the Director for Strategic Communications and Public Affairs at the National Endowment for the Arts from August to December 2018 and the White House's Director of Media Affairs from January 2017 to August 2018. Prior to that, she hosted the public affairs program Issues on WPBT 2.
According to Maliha Zia, there are high spirited women's movements in Pakistan asking for equality and non discrimination, still feminism in Pakistan is part of over all women's rights movements and not the otherwise. [16] Zia says feminism in Pakistan can be found in two forms one is Secular Liberal Feminism and the second is Islamic Feminism ...
This addresses the political discrimination of women at various levels: parties are forced to give women the opportunity to run, the women candidates are not disadvantaged by a male incumbent or general biases for male over female leadership, and the pool of women candidates is increased because of the guaranteed opportunity for female ...
It’s by a Florida GOP doing the bidding of the wealthy, ultra-conservative Christian lobby buying political power — and doesn’t care if studies show that the women most affected by abortion ...
Other examples include the Women & Politics Institute at American University, which seeks "to close the gender gap in political leadership" by providing relevant academic training to young women, [17] and the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts Boston which has a similar mandate. [18]
According to the Inter-Parliamentary Union ranking, Pakistan ranks 100th in the list of 190 countries in terms of representation of women. [9] Pakistan is ranked at 93 among 153 countries in women’s political empowerment where 20.2% of women are legislators, whereas 12% of women are appointed at ministerial positions, according to the Global ...
Sana Mir is captain of the Pakistan women's cricket team. [207] Won two gold medals [208] at Asian Games in 2010 and 2014. Started playing street cricket at the age of five. Studying engineering before becoming a cricketer by profession. Hajra Khan is the captain of Pakistan's women's football team. [209]