{"id":1951,"date":"2015-03-30T08:05:36","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T08:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=1951"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:50:23","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:50:23","slug":"women-and-political-and-economic-participation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2015\/03\/30\/women-and-political-and-economic-participation\/","title":{"rendered":"Women: political and economic participation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Beijing +20<\/strong> The <a href=\"http:\/\/beijing20.unwomen.org\/en\">UN has launched a new website<\/a> to mark the 20th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, a visionary agenda for women\u2019s empowerment.\u00a0 Relive the occasion with<a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanrhetoric.com\/speeches\/hillaryclintonbeijingspeech.htm\"> Hillary Clinton\u2019s inspiring speech<\/a><\/p>\n<p>However a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unwomen.org\/~\/media\/headquarters\/attachments\/sections\/library\/publications\/2015\/sg%20report_synthesis-en_web.pdf\"> recent summary report <\/a>has revealed that, despite progress,\u00a0 urgent action is still needed in some areas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipu.org\/press-e\/pressrelease201503101.htm\">IPU 2015 Women in Politics map<\/a> states that women represent only 17.7% of all government ministers worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>In the UK the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/women-on-boards-2015-fourth-annual-review\">Women on Boards review<\/a> shows progress towards the FTSE target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing +20 The UN has launched a new website to mark the 20th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, a visionary agenda for women\u2019s empowerment.\u00a0 Relive the occasion with Hillary Clinton\u2019s inspiring speech However a recent summary report has revealed that, despite progress,\u00a0 urgent action is still needed in some areas. IPU [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,10,13,15,9],"tags":[235,52,242,99],"class_list":["post-1951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-finance","category-management","category-politics","category-sociology","category-labour-market-studies","tag-economics","tag-feminism","tag-politics","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1951"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1953,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions\/1953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}