The Current Situation Myanmar’s 2015 elections resulted in women becoming around 10% of the MPs in the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw and across…
https://k4dm.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Party-Building-and-Candidate-Selection_EMREF_July_2020.pdf Party Building and Candidate Selection Intraparty Politics and Promoting Gender Equality in Myanmar This study examines why women remain underrepresented…
In 2020, the World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap continues to find the largest gender disparity is—once again—the Political Empowerment gap. While countries across the board are making efforts to reduce the gap, Myanmar is behind all countries in ASEAN. Despite having successful and highly visible women across all sectors of the economy from the garment industry to education. Few Myanmar women are present in politics.
(more…)In 1995 women were only 10% of the world’s parliamentarians. In that year, the UN World Conference on Women was held…
What is the role of political representation by ethnic parties in a multi-ethnic state? What is the role of women as part of a society-wide transformation?