Lanka Women

We have 5 more more councilors joining the rare breed of women councilors in provincial councils in Sri Lanka. These 5 women bring up the number of women councilors to 16  out of a total of 450 councilors. We have a long way to go but congratulations ladies, you have done your part.
The new councilors [...]

We women in Sri Lanka simply can not be happy with our representation in politics.  Only 5.8% of parliamentarians are women. Only 1.8% of local government reps are women. In other developing countries quotas of some form have been used successfully to increase women’s representation in government, local government in particular.
Women’s groups in Sri Lanka [...]