Gender shouldn’t matter when it comes to politics, but the fact is it does.

When I wrote my women in politics blog four weeks ago I didn’t consider that very soon we would have a female Prime Minister. The statistics simply didn’t allow for that. Continue reading →

The Sunday Age published an article this weekend by Sarah Boseley from the Guardian about women in politics in Rwanda. By law women are required to fill 30 per cent of government seats. Rwandan women have gone further and now hold 56 per cent of seats. Rwanda is the only country where women make up 50 per cent or more of parliament. Continue reading →