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 – Towards Gender Equality: Implications for Myanmar’s 2020 Elections
October 27, 2020.
It is now 25 years since the UN World Conference on Women was held in Beijing (1995). This meeting of global leaders spurred an unprecedented push for gender equality in a number of areas. Specifically, the conference highlighted women’s persistent political underrepresentation as a democratic problem as well as a hurdle for economic and human development. Since this conference, many countries have made concerted efforts to increase the number of women in politics. For example, the percentage of the world’s parliamentarians that are women has more than doubled since 1995 from 11% to 25% in 2020. Participating in public life is an aspect of peoples’ agency, and therefore the ability (or inability) to participate in politics and governance can directly affect their well-being.
Myanmar research community contributes to electoral policy debates
October 13, 2020 Research in Action story from IDRC Support for policy-relevant research helps to inform electoral debate in Myanmar. CLAIRE…
Gender and Political Participation in Myanmar
Enlightened Myanmar Research Foundation (EMReF), October 2020 Full report below Introduction This synthesis report presents key findings from a three-year research…
Briefing Note on Gender and Political Participation in Myanmar : The Current Situation, Why it Matters, and How to Make Participation More Equal
The Current Situation Myanmar’s 2015 elections resulted in women becoming around 10% of the MPs in the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw and across…
Party Building and Candidate Selection
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…
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.
(more…)Briefing Note on Why Political Parties in Myanmar Should Try to Increase the Number of Women Political Participation and How They Can Do This
In 1995 women were only 10% of the world’s parliamentarians. In that year, the UN World Conference on Women was held…
Myanmar Speaker Series: Will 2020 elections increase Myanmar’s inclusivity ?
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?