Analyze women’s pathways to participation across multiple levels of governance:

  1. national parliament, political parties, and social movements;
  2. state/division parliaments, government offices; and
  3. district, township, and village groups.

This program studies women’s personal path to political power, to understand what can undermine at any point upward mobility in the political system and what can facilitate or provide entry points at different moments in a woman’s life. A small parallel study in Cambodia is being used as a comparative case and build the internal research capacities of GEN through collaboration with AIT and McGill.

Lead Partner

Gender Equality Network (GEN)

Other Partners

Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)
McGill University

Outputs

Pathways to Politics for Women Parliamentarians in Myanmar

The number of women parliamentarians in Myanmar increased during the last decade of democratization before the February 2021 coup d’état...
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IDRC-supported gender expert in Myanmar wins N-Peace award

February 13, 2020 News from IDRC website May Sabe Phyu has won an N-Peace Award from the United Nations Development...
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Elevating women leaders in Myanmar

Many hurdles remain to achieve gender equality in Myanmar politics and society at large. Research supported by Canada’s Knowledge for Democracy Myanmar Initiative is identifying opportunities to close the gap.
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Myanmar Speaker Series: Working Pathways to Women’s Political Participation

October 29, 2020 The World Economic Forum's 2020 Global Gender Gap Report assesses women's empowerment across four dimensions: Economic Participation...
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Myanmar Speaker Series: Will More Women Join Politics in the 2020 Myanmar Elections?

https://youtu.be/Sd4k8GmDCL0 In 2020, the World Economic Forum's Gender Gap continues to find the largest gender disparity is—once again—the Political Empowerment...
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