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The growing acceptance of women in politics and in the workforce is highlighted by the General Social Survey, a widely respected trend survey that has been measuring views of gender and society since the 1970s. The share of Americans who say women are as suited for politics as men is up 6 percentage points since 2016, when Hillary Clinton became the first woman to win a major party’s presidential nomination, and 14 points since 2008, when she lost a grueling primary battle to Barack Obama. In 1974, just 49 percent said so. Democrats are somewhat more likely than Republicans to say so, 89 percent to 80 percent, though the share in both parties has grown in recent years. The survey found 9 percent of women saying they have been discriminated against at work because of their gender. The share of Democrats who support preferential hiring for women is up to 46 percent, from 35 percent in 2016. Within the GOP, a gender gap persists on attitudes toward women in the workforce. Republican men are more likely than Republican women to say it is better for women to stay at home while men work, 37 percent to 22 percent. Similarly, while 18 percent of Republican women think preschool children suffer if their mother works, 39 percent of Republican men say this. About a third of Republicans (35 percent) say the same.

Without the pioneers throughout the decades that she celebrates – Eleanor Rathbone campaigning for family allowances, Barbara Castle fighting for equal pay for women, and Harriet Harman and Tessa Jowell pushing for better childcare provision – there would have been much slower progress. As Reeves says, the book is a “biography of Parliament told by the women elected to it … an alternative history of Britain in the last one hundred years, told through the stories of political women”. In the 1960s, Shirley Williams and her female colleagues had their bottoms pinched by male MPs and so, in protest, wore stiletto heels which were dug into the feet of any offender – who would later be identified hobbling into the tearoom. Shirley Summerskill, a minister in a Harold Wilson government, had her hair stroked by a male MP who had stopped her in a Westminster corridor. She couldn’t report his behaviour to the Whips’ Office because the culprit was, in fact, the chief whip, Bob Mellish. Reeves discusses female MPs who have, in the past century, risked their political careers to take a principled stand: Rathbone, an independent, joined the Conservative Duchess of Atholl and Labour’s Ellen Wilkinson to oppose appeasement of fascism, and yet their contribution has been overlooked by history. The duchess resigned as an MP in November 1938 to force a byelection – and yet did not receive public support from Churchill, who didn’t want to take a political risk (she lost). The theme of sisterhood across the parties runs through the book and the century. Today, female MPs are subjected to a barrage of abuse. Women of Westminster shows how far female MPs have come, but how challenging their work remains.

“Boys make the rules?” Centanni recalled her daughter asking her during that visit after quickly noticing that men greatly outnumbered women in the Legislature. “She, of her own accord, noticed the difference – even at that age,” Centanni said during a panel discussion at LSU that was part of an event Wednesday examining hurdles that women have to overcome when they run for office and the disparities between genders in state government. In addition to the state’s all-male Congressional delegation, there are no female statewide office holders in Louisiana currently, after no women ran as major candidates for statewide office in 2015. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, about 15 percent of the members of the Louisiana State House and Senate are women — up from 12.5 percent at the end of the last term in 2015, according to figures tracked by the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University. “So the question is, why the disparity?” “The data proves that women don’t run at the same levels,” she answered. Laura Cox Kaplan, Republican co-chair of Running Start, a non-profit that encourages female candidates, said women are often less likely than their male counterparts to see themselves as possible public leaders. “We have to think very differently about how we encourage women and engage them to run for office.” The event took a closer look at how a recent debate among the Louisiana Ethics Board whether child care should be allowed as a campaign expense illustrated the gendered political environment candidates face. “People feel like they can just say anything in the world,” Stokes said. “I think as a woman I bring gifts to the table.” Mizell is the first woman to represent her district, and she said no woman has ever served on the local Washington Parish council. “I believe there will be more women (in the state Legislature),” she said.

Political parties often say they aren't able to find women candidates, but activists say it's an "insult" to scores of women party workers who support them. Scores of people from all walks of life gathered in Bengaluru’s Freedom Park on Thursday, demanding that the Election Commission make political parties give 50% of their tickets to women in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. This was organised by non-partisan political collective Shakti, which was formed to enable more women to join politics. Tara Krishnaswamy, the co-convener of Shakti, said, “Our parliament has a dismal 11% of women, and [almost] 90% are men. These men are sitting and passing laws on what should be the tax on sanitary napkins etc. But the typical question that comes up is -- you know, we are not able to find women candidates. But suddenly when it comes to giving tickets they don’t find any women at all? The event also emboldened people who wish to get into politics, but are afraid to do so. 20-year-old Shalom Gauri, who will be voting for the first time in the upcoming election, says that an event like this gives her the confidence to speak. “I’ve always been interested in politics, and Shakti has given me the confidence to speak about it openly because it was always a bit scary before.

And yet, the state Cabinet has not a single woman. Women in party politics: Reality check During the 2018 Assembly election, 137 women contested elections in the state’s 119 constituencies; this figure is only marginally up by three numbers from the 2014 elections. Not a single party, not even some of the important national and regional political parties, fielded the token 33% women candidates to contest elections under their party banners. The ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) fielded only four women this election, much less than the previous election where it fielded 10 women. This includes three women from the ruling TRS – Ajmera Rekha Reddy from Khanapur constituency in Nirmal district; Padma Devender Reddy from Medak constituency in Medak district; and Gongidi Suneetha from Alair constituency in Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district. Only 15 candidates out of the 134 who contested the elections in 2014 (in the 119 constituencies in Telangana region) have filed their nominations again this year. Encouraging has been 21 constituencies where women came forward to contest in the December election, however, not a single woman contested from 19 constituencies which had women’s participation in 2014. In the 2014 Assembly Elections, Banoth, who had contested as TDP candidate, lost to TRS. Contesting as TDP MLA in the previous Assembly Election, she had lost to him by 19,000 votes. Parties must make space “For all that fight I didn’t get back all my fields.

Among Republicans and Democrats, women are more likely than men to say there are too few women in political and corporate leadership positions, and there are substantial gender differences, particularly among Republicans, in views on the obstacles holding women back from these positions. Among Democrats, majorities of women and men say there are too few women in political and business leadership positions, but this view is even more pronounced among women. About a third of adults say the number of women in political and corporate leadership positions is about right, and fewer than one-in-ten say there are currently too many women in top leadership positions. The public largely says it’s easier for men than it is for women to get top executive positions in business and to get elected to high political offices – a majority of men and women say this is the case – but there is little consensus between the two genders about what is holding women back from these positions. For example, while there is a 21-percentage-point gap in the share of women (69%) and men (48%) saying there are too few women in high political offices, there is a 46-point gap between Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents (79% say there are too few women in these positions) and Republicans and those who lean Republican (33%). A majority of Americans would like to see more women in leadership positions in politics and business About six-in-ten Americans say there are too few women in high political offices (59%) and in top executive positions in business (59%) in the U.S. today; about a third say there is about the right number of women in political (34%) and business (35%) leadership positions, and small shares say there are too many women in these roles (6% and 4%, respectively). Among Democrats, majorities of men (73%) and women (84%) say there are too few women in these positions. Republican men are far less likely than Republican women, as well as Democratic men and women, to say it is easier for men to get top leadership positions. Roughly six-in-ten adults (61%) say female political leaders do a better job at being compassionate and empathetic, and a similar share (59%) say the same about female business leaders. Women are also viewed by those who see a gender difference as having an advantage over men in working out compromises: 42% of all adults say women in high political offices are better at this than their male counterparts, while 8% say men are better.

Now, with images circulating that show thousands thronging to Warisan rallies across the state, Adnan, his boss Najib and others in BN appear to be taking notice. Victory for Shafie in Sabah could hand federal power to Mahathir – Warisan is informally aligned with the opposition – but also upend politics in the Bornean state, which BN’s stranglehold on power has given a reputation for being the bloc’s “fixed deposit”. Independent observers continue to view BN as a favourite to win nationwide and in Sabah, but Warisan insiders are adamant odds are in their favour. Speaking to This Week in Asia on the sidelines of a rally over the weekend, Shafie said while he hoped his ally Mahathir would take federal power, there would be no compromise on this central campaign promise if that happens. The pact saw Sabah form the Malaysian federation with the former state of Malaya, along with neighbouring Sarawak and Singapore. And while Sabah and Sarawak remained, complaints have persisted through the decades about the level of decision-making powers they have on key issues such as immigration, development expenditure and overlapping functions between state and federal agencies. Shukrol said Shafie’s charisma and oratory skills was one reason for the groundswell of support for Warisan. “Warisan has made great inroads and Shafie has charisma and very much reminds me of my husband,” she told This Week in Asia. Sabahan native and politics observer Oh Ei Sun said there was precedence of similar “populist-appearing” political movements triumphing in the state, referring to the 1980s ruling party Parti Bersatu Sabah (United Sabah Party). Asked about his chances, Shafie told This Week in Asia: “Let’s wait and see, the people will decide and I believe Sabahans are wise enough.”

Today in 5 Lines The New York Times reports that at least five officials at the Environmental Protection Agency were reassigned or demoted “after they raised concerns about the spending and management” of the agency’s administrator, Scott Pruitt. The National Guard in Texas said that the deployment of troops to the U.S.-Mexico border is in “very early planning stages.” During a tax-reform event in West Virginia, President Trump repeated unsubstantiated claims that voter fraud was a problem in the 2016 presidential election and criticized Democratic Senator Joe Manchin for voting against the GOP tax-reform bill. Trump told reporters that he didn’t know that his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, made a $130,000 payment to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence about an alleged affair. A total of 309 women from the two major parties have filed paperwork to run for the House, more than any other time in history. Today on The Atlantic How Do I Talk to My Child About Climate Change? : An environmental reporter grapples with how to explain the issue to her 9-year-old daughter. (Michelle Nijhuis) The Ghost of Sit-Ins Yet to Come: Adam Harris writes that a weeklong occupation of an administrative building at Howard University may be a harbinger of pushback at other college campuses across the United States. Freedom in Hungary: In an interview with David Frum, Andras Petho, the leader of one of Hungary’s last remaining media organizations, describes what it’s like to hold an aspiring strongman to account. Could the Government Fix Facebook? : Here are four reforms being discussed by Congress and federal regulators.

They’re the spectral presences of politics, honing their bosses’ ideas and messages, guarding the turf of their masters from encroachment by rivals. Almost half of women in politics have faced abuse or violence Read more How male-dominated the ranks of ministerial advisers are is hardly a surprise, but the raw figures are more appalling than I realised. The latter figure is an embarrassment for a prime minister who has said she wants more workplace equality for women and has a tight-knit inner circle, in which the most senior woman (JoJo Penn) is only the deputy chief of staff. Counting the numbers of female MPs and ministers tells only part of the story of women’s roles in politics. Special advisers matter, because they reflect and shape their bosses’ priorities. The intimacy of their relationship (they are personal appointments with strong loyalty to the political aims of their minister), means that they can drive a particular policy agenda or downplay ideas they don’t approve of – so any mention of something being a “second term issue” means it is a dodo. They’re also lightning rods for feuds – Tony Blair’s team routinely snubbed Ed Balls, when he was economic adviser to Gordon Brown, a proxy show of underlying hostilities. Spads are gatekeepers for ministers’ reputations. They have substantial influence over how their bosses are perceived – and the best are adept at pouring oil on troubled waters. What matters, though, is who gets the plum roles as consiglieri when a party gets into government.

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