An info graphic by the UN Women on UN Public service Day joyously announced that the number of women at the civil service academy, Pakistan has increased from 10 percent in 1984 to 40 percent in 2017.

Democratic backsliding — understood as the decline of democratic norms, institutions, and processes — is a well-documented development that has concerned most world regions, and Indonesia offers an ...

New Delhi, July 8 There is a compelling need for substantive representation of women on the boards of companies rather than a token representation through family members, Women and Child Development ...

As of the year 2022, no country in Asia has gender parity in its parliament. Meanwhile, the proportion of national-level women parliamentarians in Asia averages a mere 20%. What is more important than ...

We need to analyse two issues that divide political scientists to provide an answer. i) Is political representation ?substantive? or ?descriptive? or both ? . Put crudely in the USA,the debate is ...

The increase in the number of women elected to public office is one of the most visible and significant changes in U.S. politics over the past fifty years. This change has been particularly noticeable ...

Combining data from nearly 100 interviews with national parliamentarians from ten Asian countries, the contributors to this book analyze and evaluate the advancement of gender equality in Asia. This ...

Hussain, Sadia, ‘Performance of Women in Parliament: A Quantitative Study of Questions by Women Members in Lok Sabha (1999-2019)’, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 57, Issue No. 31, July 30, 2022 ...

The meaning of representation in any representative-democracy is necessarily a contested concept; a productive force which shapes and reshapes the structure of political competition. Given our ...