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Gender and politics is the focus of the journals Politics & Gender [15] and the European Journal of Politics and Gender. Gender and politics is also the title of a book series, Gender and Politics, which launched in 2012 and published dozens of volumes over the next several years. [2]
Despite the new 13th NPC lineup including 742 women out of 2,980 representatives, about 24.9% of the total with a 1.5% increase from the prior term, [160] there is little presence of women in the central power structure of major government organs and their political influence is vastly diminished as they climb up the political ladder.
But despite relatively greater freedom of movement for Spartan women, their role in politics was the same as Athenian women. [17] Plato acknowledged that extending civil and political rights to women would substantively alter the nature of the household and the state. [21]
The great news: The number of U.S. women in political office is officially growing, at almost all levels of government. The House of Representatives is now 29 percent women, the Senate 25 percent.
Women are underrepresented in most countries' National Parliaments. [129] The 2011 UN General Assembly resolution on women's political participation called for female participation in politics, and expressed concern about the fact that "women in every part of the world continue to be largely marginalized from the political sphere".
"Electing a woman means even more now than in 2016," says Jenna Lowenstein, who was Clinton's digital director on that campaign. "There's more on the line post- Dobbs , and the reality of a Trump ...
Being a woman in Mexico is tough—if not dangerous. Women earn 16% less than men, and the gender gap in labor force participation is one of the highest in Latin America. But perhaps the most ...
During this, the women participating sought equal political rights with men, namely the right to vote. They also countered the societal norms of women as being weak, irrational and unable to participate in politics by arguing against the cult of domesticity that women were entitled to the same civil and political rights.