Bidhya Devi Bhandari elected as the first female Nepalese President in Himalayan nation’s history | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

Nepalese politicians have elected a longtime women’s rights campaigner to become the country’s first female president, as the Himalayan nation pushes for more gender equality in politics and work life. Bidhya Devi Bhandari, the 54-year-old deputy leader of Nepal’s Communist Party of Nepal Unified Marxist-Leninist, had lobbied actively for the new constitution to require that either…