Discusses the increase in the number of women who were elected to state governments in the United States in 2000. Reasons for the underrepresentation of women in politics; States which have women governors; Background on several women legislators.CowanCatherineEBSCO_AspState Government News...
Media reports cited an official response by the federal government to a parliamentary enquiry filed by the Green party. According to the document, 29 percent of federal ministers, secretaries of state and departmental directors were women in March 2018, with only a few remaining posts to be nomin...
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After the fall of fascism – Rome, considered the heart of fascism under Mussolini was liberated in June 1944 and many felt the country had lost its basic values after 20 years of fascist government –Alba de Céspedesfounded a literary journalMercuriopublishing many great names of Italian litera...
"He has been doing this for years, without any repercussions. He should not be in charge of our government and should not be in any position of power over anyone else," Wang's statement said. Debra Katz, an attorney for former Cuomo aide Charlotte Bennett, echoed Wang, saying Cuomo and...
Jeanne Sheen is an American politician who was elected as a Democrat to the U.S. Senate in 2008 and began representing New Hampshire the following year. She was the first woman to serve as governor of the state (1997–2003).
More than a third of women in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico were sterilized from the 1930s to the 1970s as a result of a partnership between the U.S. government, Puerto Rican lawmakers and medical officials. The United States has ruled the island since 1898. In the decades followin...
JINAN, March 8 (Xinhua) -- Wang Xiujuan works as a furniture saleswoman in east China, which requires constant standing and has made her menopausal symptoms worse. Wang, however, is expecting easier days as government measures to better protect female workers took effect ahead of International ...
The introduction of a welfare state was central to plans for post-war reconstruction which were initiated in the early 1940s.2 log in via an institutionto check access. Cite this chapter Spencer, S. (2005). Women and the Welfare State. In: Gender, Work and Education in Britain in the ...