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In Hong Kong, Priority seats were first introduced in the MTR in 2009 with the "Priority Seats Campaign". The Smiley World Characters, large red stickers with big smiley faces, were stuck on the top of the priority seats so as to attract people's attention. [7] After the setup of priority seats in MTR, bus companies started to follow.
A sign on a Japanese rail platform indicating a boarding point for women-only cars. Women-only passenger cars are railway or subway cars intended for women only. They are a result of sexual segregation in some societies, often resulting from attempts to reduce sexual harassment and assault such as groping.
The following is a list of women who have been elected or appointed head of state or government of their respective countries since the interwar period (1918–1939). The first list includes female presidents who are heads of state and may also be heads of government, as well as female heads of government who are not concurrently head of state, such as prime ministers.
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Top-left: Victoria Woodhull is considered the first female presidential candidate for her 1872 candidacy. Top-right: Hillary Clinton was the first woman nominated for president by a major political party and the first woman to win the national popular vote in 2016. Center: Kamala Harris became the first female vice president in 2020.
The Conservative A-List, also called Priority List, was a list of United Kingdom candidates drawn up by Conservative Central Office at the behest of David Cameron following his election as party leader in December 2005, aimed as a means of broadening the number of Conservative Members of Parliament, potential peers and MEPs from minority groups and women as well as other preferred candidates ...
Now she risks losing her seat to a Trump-backed challenger in Wyoming’s Republican primary next month. Vice Chair Liz Cheney, with Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., at a House select committee ...
Jacqui Smith, the first female UK Home Secretary, was elected using an AWS. [7] Labour used all-women shortlists to select candidates in half of all winnable seats for the 1997 general election, with the aim of reaching 100 female MPs post-election; a goal that was achieved. [3] The shortlists provoked controversy, however.