Elected Women Representatives

A record number of women have been elected to Japan's house of representatives, projections showed Monday, but at less than 16 percent they remain a minority.

The meeting assumes importance because the International Cricket Council has scheduled a conclave in Dubai at the end of the upcoming Women's T20 World Cup in the UAE.

Former India captains Dilip Vengsarkar and Shubhangi Kulkarni were on Saturday elected to represent Indian Cricketers' Association (ICA) on the BCCI Apex Council

The first female vice president, and a symbol of American diversity -- Kamala Harris has electrified many women and minority voters on the US left, who view her as the future more than Joe Biden.

India has been elected as a member of the United Nation's Commission on Status of Women, a body of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), said TS Tirumurti, permanent representative of India to the United Nations, on Monday (local time).

Over half a dozen Indian-Americans, including two incumbent Congressmen and two women, have won primaries for House of Representatives elections in November.

For the first time in the Lok Sabha elections in Mizoram, a woman is trying her luck. Though women voters outnumber men in the parliamentary constituency, it's the first time that a woman has joined the race to challenge the hegemony of men to represent the lone Mizoram seat in the Lok Sabha.

In the just concluded state polls, 17 women candidates won as against 31 lawmakers in the last Assembly. Among the 17 newly elected women MLAs, nine represent the BJP while eight are from the Congress, as per the EC data.

High voter turnouts were recorded in Madhya Pradesh and Mizoram today, which represents the enthusiasm of the people of the states to vote. Both the states witnessed people of all ages coming out to vote in large number.

US voters are poised to elect two Muslim women to Congress in the midterm election next week, marking a historic first even as anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant rhetoric has been on the rise. Ilhan Omar, a Somali refugee, is all but certain to be elected to the US House of Representatives in a heavily-Democratic district in the Midwestern state of Min...

The 140-member Kerala Assembly will have just 8 women MLAs, three of them debutants, all representing the Left Democratic Front that returned to power with a massive majority in the state.

Women form 46 per cent of the total 13.41 lakh elected representatives (ERs) in Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) across the country, Lok Sabha was informed today.

Women candidates from Haryana failed to clinch even a single seat to the Lok Sabha in the recently concluded elections.

Actress Shweta Menon was allegedly molested by an "elected representative" from the area at a function in Kollam, sparking strong protests from the Malayalam film fraternity and women outfits, which demanded stern action against the politician.

The 'Occupy Men's Toilet' campaign started by women in China to protest against the lack of sanitation facilities for them is beginning to grip the imagination of women in the city. Activists, working women and college students are now saying that if the 78 newly elected women representatives in the civic house do nothing on the issue, they will la...

A record number of women have been elected to Japan's house of representatives, projections showed Monday, but at less than 16 percent they remain a minority.

The meeting assumes importance because the International Cricket Council has scheduled a conclave in Dubai at the end of the upcoming Women's T20 World Cup in the UAE.

Former India captains Dilip Vengsarkar and Shubhangi Kulkarni were on Saturday elected to represent Indian Cricketers' Association (ICA) on the BCCI Apex Council

The first female vice president, and a symbol of American diversity -- Kamala Harris has electrified many women and minority voters on the US left, who view her as the future more than Joe Biden.

India has been elected as a member of the United Nation's Commission on Status of Women, a body of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), said TS Tirumurti, permanent representative of India to the United Nations, on Monday (local time).

Over half a dozen Indian-Americans, including two incumbent Congressmen and two women, have won primaries for House of Representatives elections in November.

For the first time in the Lok Sabha elections in Mizoram, a woman is trying her luck. Though women voters outnumber men in the parliamentary constituency, it's the first time that a woman has joined the race to challenge the hegemony of men to represent the lone Mizoram seat in the Lok Sabha.

In the just concluded state polls, 17 women candidates won as against 31 lawmakers in the last Assembly. Among the 17 newly elected women MLAs, nine represent the BJP while eight are from the Congress, as per the EC data.

High voter turnouts were recorded in Madhya Pradesh and Mizoram today, which represents the enthusiasm of the people of the states to vote. Both the states witnessed people of all ages coming out to vote in large number.

US voters are poised to elect two Muslim women to Congress in the midterm election next week, marking a historic first even as anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant rhetoric has been on the rise. Ilhan Omar, a Somali refugee, is all but certain to be elected to the US House of Representatives in a heavily-Democratic district in the Midwestern state of Min...

The 140-member Kerala Assembly will have just 8 women MLAs, three of them debutants, all representing the Left Democratic Front that returned to power with a massive majority in the state.

Women form 46 per cent of the total 13.41 lakh elected representatives (ERs) in Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) across the country, Lok Sabha was informed today.

Women candidates from Haryana failed to clinch even a single seat to the Lok Sabha in the recently concluded elections.

Actress Shweta Menon was allegedly molested by an "elected representative" from the area at a function in Kollam, sparking strong protests from the Malayalam film fraternity and women outfits, which demanded stern action against the politician.

The 'Occupy Men's Toilet' campaign started by women in China to protest against the lack of sanitation facilities for them is beginning to grip the imagination of women in the city. Activists, working women and college students are now saying that if the 78 newly elected women representatives in the civic house do nothing on the issue, they will la...