BJP reserves women posts
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India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party says it will reserve a  third of its party posts for women.
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Sushmita Sen finds herself in a soup as the Madurai branch of the Madras High Court issued a notice to her, earlier this week, over some comments made by her on Âpre-marital sexÂ
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Pratibha Patil, a diminutive 72-year-old lawyer, was set to be declared India&#39;s first woman president Saturday after one of the bitterest political campaigns in the nation&#39;s post-colonial history.
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The government is setting out plans to increase the number of women judges by encouraging flexible working.
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Though more women are getting M.B.A.'s, few reach the corner suite.
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AHMEDABAD, India  - Among the millions around the  world whose lives will change when global textile quotas expire  at the end of the year are the illiterate women garment workers  of India's Gujarat state.
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The French cabinet approves a proposal to encourage parties to promote more women into politics.
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The Democratic candidate slips in the polls of female voters
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The pattern of improving employment prospects for women has done as much as class-action lawsuits and quotas to narrow the gap between men's and women's pay.
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NEW DELHI, July 21 -- Lawmakers elected India's first female president, officials announced Saturday, in a vote seen as a step forward for the millions of Indian women and girls who face bitter discrimination in everyday life.
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ROME, Dec. 7 (IPS) - About half of the parliamentarians in Rwanda are  women; many other African countries have  more women in  parliament than some western ones. It's taken some doing, as  Gertrude  Mongella knows - and as she tells IPS in an interview.
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With her poll lead slipping away the favourite has had to change tack to win back women voters
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Lawmakers in India were expected to elect the nation&#39;s first woman president in voting that began on Thursday, following the most scandal-dogged contest in six decades of independence.
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Businesswomen make up a growing percentage of the global workforce but are still under-represented in the boardroom.  With just 117 women among the 1,130 directors of the FTSE 100 companies, according to a recent survey (January 2007) by Cranfield University, it would need almost a fourfold increase in female representation to achieve gender equality.
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Recruiting and retaining more women by setting quotas could help big international oil and gas firms cope with a severe shortage of skilled staff in future, a senior executive at Royal Dutch Shell said.
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Her campaign manager says as the nominee she could win over many GOP women.
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India elected its first female  president on Saturday, early results showed, in what supporters  called a boost for the rights of millions of downtrodden women,  despite a bitter campaign marked by scandal.