#GAReads | Women's Power Index Tracks Women's Political Representation

“Women's Power Index Tracks Women's Political Representation”:

As the 2020 election season begins, the Women and Foreign Policy program is launching the “Women’s Power Index,” a new interactive tool that ranks countries on their progress toward gender parity in political participation and visualizes the gender gap in political representation.

The index reveals that the number of female heads of state has surged over the last three decades. Since the end of WWII, sixty-four countries have elected a female head of state, with two-thirds of women ascending to high office during this period elected in the 2000s. Despite these gains, women remain underrepresented at all levels of government.

Read Rachel B. Vogelstein’s full article at Council on Foreign Relations here…