Khanyi Mlaba is the author of this insightful article published in The Global Citizen. Here’s an excerpt:

Women make up half of the world’s population and yet they are still largely excluded from politics and decision-making power. 

The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), a global organization of national parliaments, released its latest annual Women in Parliament report just a few days before International Women’s Day on March 8, and it indicated that the world is not yet on track to achieve gender equality in politics by 2030. 

The good news is that women are steadily taking up more space in governmental leadership around the world, with more and more of them securing seats in national parliaments, and a good number of countries implementing parliamentary quotas to ensure fair representation of women

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