Only two women have been directly elected by their populations to the presidency in African countries: President Ellen Sirleaf Johnson of Liberia in 2006 and President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah of ...

As part of Xpress‘ annual Women in Business issue, we reached out to elected officials and municipal leaders seeking their stories about influential role models, lived experiences and obstacles ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. China's President Xi Jinping speaks during a opening ceremony of the Global Women’s Summit 2025 at China National Convention ...

Women parliamentarians, civil society actors, and policy experts gathered at a high-level roundtable titled 'Raising Her Voice in Politics', jointly hosted by the Sustainable Development Policy ...

WASHINGTON ‒ The number of Black women elected to Congress has remained steady in recent years, but a record number of Black women have served in state legislatures this year, often the pipeline to ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is the highest-ranked political newcomer to the Forbes list of the World’s Most Powerful Women, one of a few breakthroughs amid a year otherwise marked by sudden ...

Katie Porter, the leading candidate in the race to be California’s next governor, is facing scrutiny over her behavior during a recent CBS News Sacramento interview. Reporter Julie Watts asked Porter ...

An overwhelming majority of American voters believe it’s important to elect more women to political office, but younger voters are the least open to voting for a woman as president, according to a new ...

Beyond the campaign trails, podiums, and other public-facing aspects of running for political office, If She Runs depicts the ...

Despite women leading Bangladesh at the highest political level for decades, their presence in electoral politics remains marginal. As the 2026 election takes place, new research shows how visibility ...