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The increasing role of women’s fatwa-making in Indonesia

  • Nor Ismah,

Women Islamic scholars are challenging male authority through fatwa-making.

Taiwan’s first woman president: The paradox of Tsai Ing-wen

  • Professor Antonia Finnane,

Tsai is a symbol of what Taiwan has become: a flourishing democracy that has shown itself capable of electing a woman as president.

Where are the Women? Gender Perspectives in Indonesia’s 2024 Presidential Race

  • Prasakti Ramadhana Fahadi, Amalinda Savirani & Ken Setiawan,

The absence of women from any of the presidential tickets in this year’s Indonesian elections underscores a deeper political and policy malaise in addressing gender inequality.

Issues for working women as debated in the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly

  • Dr Hiroko Levy and Dr Emma Dalton,

What do female politicians in Japan raise as crucial issues for gender equality?

Malaysian ‘matriliny’: past, present and future

  • Associate Professor Maila Stivens,

Will the thoroughly modern matriliny of Negeri Sembilan produce further new imaginings and new politics?