#women-in-politics

#women-in-politics

The brief and deeply unsettling encounter lasted just a few seconds, sparking outrage across Mexico and beyond as it laid bare what many women in the country face daily. But for those who have spent years tracking women in politics, the incident in which a drunken man attempted to kiss Mexico's president, Claudia Sheinbaum, on the neck and grope her was shocking but not entirely surprising.

Imagine there was a truck heading directly for your children. What would you do? Surely everything in your power to save them, including jumping in its way? Catherine McKenna, formerly the Canadian minister for environment and climate change, borrows this analogy for the climate crisis from a colleague to argue that we need to use all the tools at our disposal to tackle devastating danger that is already with us.

Wes Streeting has said that the next deputy leader of the Labour Party should ideally be a woman. Appearing on BBC Breakfast on Tuesday (9 September), the health secretary said that there are some brilliant women that are putting themselves forward in the race to replace Angela Rayner.

Sturgeon was extremely lucky and often wrong, sometimes seriously so. There are examples of all these qualities in her newly published memoir, Frankly.

"I may be quiet, but I'm a firm believer that actions speak louder than words. I don't believe in speaking without purpose," said Garcia-Roves.

Since the 2022 federal election, the Liberal party has failed to reconnect with female voters, risking further alienation while elevating the hard-right faction.