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OSCE - Organization for Security
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Institutions & Human Rights
PROMOTING WOMEN'S PARTICIPATION IN
POLITICAL PARTIES - HANDBOOK - OSCE
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This Handbook on Promoting Women’s Participation in Political
Parties aims at encouraging political party leaders, men and women alike, to
support the integration of gender aspects into internal political party
decision-making processes. It also seeks to develop the capacity of women
politicians to advance their political careers. The key finding that has
emerged during the development of this handbook is that internal party reform
is critical to women’s advancement. A lack of internal party democracy and
transparency, the absence of gender-sensitivity in candidate selection and
outreach, as well as the failure to decentralize party decision-making processes,
all inhibit women’s opportunities to advance as leaders within parties and as
candidates for elected office. To this end, the handbook provides a valuable
overview of voluntary measures that political parties can adopt to enhance
gender equality within party structures, processes, policies and activities, as
a means to provide both women and men equal opportunities to participate
meaningfully in the political life of OSCE participating States.