Women in Asian Local Politics – A Springboard for Gender Democracy?Andrea Fleschenberg und and Claudia Derichs

ASIEN – Nr. 114/115 (2010) pp. 11–15

From a worldwide perspective, Asian women were once at the cutting edge of female political participation. Female prime ministers and presidents have repeatedly governed several Asian nations: Bangladesh, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, India and Pakistan. Women politicians have also been at the forefront of reform and opposition as well as autonomy movements across Asia, for example Wan Azizah Wan Ismail in Malaysia, Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma, and Rebiya Kadeer in China. Currently, four out of a worldwide thirty-five female head of parliaments chair one of the national legislatures in Asia…