Women Representation in Local Government.
Statistical Analysis of Nominations and Representation of Women in Local Government
The requirement to undertake specific efforts to identify gender issues arises because statistics are needed for topics that may be of greater relevance to one sex than the other, and to take into account the fact that policies and programmes may have differential impacts on women and men that therefore need to be monitored separately. Until recently and almost universally, the majority of decision makers involved in identifying data requirements and developing national statistical systems have been men. Thus men’s concerns, needs and lifestyles are better represented in current statistics than women’s.
Sri Lanka: where are the women in local government?
The women party activists who applied for nominations to stand in next week’s local elections in Sri Lanka found themselves blocked by a system of entrenched patron-client relationships. As one of them said, ” for how long will the men decide where the wells should be, even though it is the women who fetch the water?”.