… that obliges political parties to include at least 40% of women on every list for every election. Two features are … are disallowed. Secondly, it is structured to prevent women being systematically allocated unwinnable places at the … The law has led to a steady increase in the number of women elected, and, interestingly, not only in the case of …
… In brief CELEM, the Spanish coordinator of the European Women’s Lobby, wanted to find a way to ensure that the … were that were likely to be sympathetic to the cause of women’s equality. It established a database of these names, … The existence of the database has raised the profile of women’s issues in the press, especially on the front pages …
… the National Rural Network, the project aimed to stimulate women’s entrepreneurship and increase their use of … an ‘employability agent’ in each area, who could support women entrepreneurs. It also ran 11 online training courses which attracted 833 women, and held seminars on how to set up co-operatives. The …