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 yet…
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 Program.…
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.
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 and Opportunity; Education Attainment; Health and Survival; and Political Empowerment. The latter one tends to be a very critical dimension to determine the size and direction of the gap. Political empowerment measures participation of women in parliament and the number of women ministers in the country. Within the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN), Philippines performs the best and Myanmar the worst, putting the country 114th in the global ranking of out of 153 countries.
Myanmar Speaker Series: Will More Women Join Politics in the 2020 Myanmar Elections?
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.
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