Countries: Ethiopia
Variables: GP-DATA-1

"Within the Federal executive branch, women’s representation stood at 15.5 per cent at higher level and 22 per cent at middle level positions" (12). "[There is] the low level of women’s representation in the executive and judicial branches and the low number of women in decision-making positions" (13).

Countries: United States
Variables: GP-DATA-1

"Admiral Linda L. Fagan shattered the military's glass ceiling on Wednesday to become commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard and the first female officer to lead a branch of the U.S. armed forces" (Para. 1).

Countries: Nepal
Variables: GP-DATA-1

"Women’s position in high-level political leadership has been in an encouraging level. Nepal has a remarkable position with women’s leadership in key responsibilities of governance as the President (Head of State), Chief Justice (Head of Judiciary) and Speaker of the Legislature-Parliament. This has made encouraging development for Nepali women to be in the leadership position in the future." (11). "The number of women applicants in civil service positions has increased quite significantly, i.e. 60.12% in 2014/15 as compared to 44% in 2010/11. Likewise, the percentage of women selected for civil service positions in 2014/15 counts 35.64 as compared to 26.21 in 2010/11.15 Currently, the representation of women in civil service...more

Countries: Austria
Variables: GP-DATA-1

"In particular, it welcomes the establishment, in 2011, of a 35 per cent quota in supervisory boards of State-owned and State-related enterprises with a 50 per cent share or more held by the federal State" (5).

Countries: Colombia
Variables: GP-DATA-1, RISW-PRACTICE-1

"For the first time in Colombia’s history, a Black woman is close to the top of the executive branch. Francia Márquez, an environmental activist from the mountainous department of Cauca in southwestern Colombia, has become a national phenomenon, mobilizing decades of voter frustration, and becoming the country’s first Black vice president on Sunday, as the running mate to Gustavo Petro" (para 1-2).

Countries: New Zealand
Variables: GP-DATA-1

"Current Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is the nation’s third female leader, and women currently also hold a number of other top roles including chief justice of New Zealand’s Supreme Court and governor-general" (para 5).

Countries: Tanzania
Variables: GP-DATA-1

"His death catapulted Ms. Hassan to a historic position as Tanzania’s first female president. Known as Mama Samia, she is currently the only female head of government in sub-Saharan Africa. On Friday, she met in Washington with a fellow path-breaker, Kamala Harris, the first woman and first woman of color to be vice president of the United States." (3) "A member of the governing Chama Cha Mapinduzi party — or Party of the Revolution — since the late 1980s, she was elected as a lawmaker in Zanzibar in 2000 before joining the national Parliament in 2010. Ms. Hassan, who sits in the party’s central committee, quickly went up the ranks,...more

Countries: Djibouti
Variables: GP-DATA-1

"There are three women in the current Government and 16 in Parliament, accounting for 26 per cent of deputies. A woman is serving as a city mayor, and two political parties, one of which is an opposition party, are headed by women" (6). "In the most recent legislative elections, as a result of the 2018 amended law on quotas, which raises the mandated proportion of women from 10 to 25 per cent, the number of women in the National Assembly increased. In fact, the number of women parliamentarians has risen from 9 to 17 (26 per cent), including one vice-president, chairpersons of standing committees, among them the Committee on Law...more

Countries: East Timor
Variables: GP-DATA-1

"Women’s participation at the executive level (Ministers/Secretaries of State) remains limited with only between 16 per cent and 21 per cent women in the last 3 Governments during the reporting period" (21). "The campaign further encouraged and prepared women for leadership regardless of party affiliation, with the objective to increase the number of female candidates standing for the 2016 local elections. 300 women leaders were identified and trained in this view.119,120 As a result, there was a 20-fold increase in the number of women candidates (from 42 in 2009 to 319 in 2016) and the number of women elected as Suco chiefs rose from 11 in 2009, to 21 in...more

Countries: Indonesia
Variables: GP-DATA-1

"[W]omen mayors head only 7 per cent of the 78,000 villages" (10).

Countries: China
Variables: GP-DATA-1

"With the sustained rapid development of China’s rural economy, the majority of rural women have become the main force in rural development. However, women are still underrepresented on villagers committees: the number of women members is not in proportion to their share of the population" (21). "the overall proportion of women in politics is low; there are more women who are deputies than chiefs, especially in Party committees and governments at the city and county levels" (32). "The proportion of women in villagers committees nationwide rose from 15.1 per cent in 2004 to 21.5 per cent in 2009" (54).

Countries: Switzerland
Variables: GP-DATA-1

"Within the executive branches the picture is mixed. Women were the majority in the federal government for the first time in 2010: four of seven seats on the Federal Council. Since 2011, there have been only three. In the cantonal governments, the proportion of women was 23 per cent in 2014 (as of 5 October). The government of the canton of Vaud has the most women (4 of 7 members). There is at least one woman in all the cantonal governments, but in more than two thirds of them they account for only a fifth or a seventh of the total" (19).

Countries: Serbia
Variables: GP-DATA-1

"In local government, however, only 5.5 percent of the country’s mayors were women" (21).

Countries: Russia
Variables: GP-DATA-1

"In that regard, it notes that only two out of 10 Deputy Prime Ministers, one out of 21 federal ministers, 38 out of 170 Federation Council deputies and 74 out of 450 deputies of the State Duma are women" (9).

Countries: United Arab Emirates
Variables: LBHO-PRACTICE-3, LBHO-LAW-1, GP-DATA-1

"Although some traditional practices discouraged women from engaging in political life, no laws limit participation of women or members of minorities in the political process. The government prioritized women’s participation in government. There were nine female ministers in the 31-member cabinet, an increase of two women from the previous cabinet, and 20 women in the FNC (seven elected)" (25).