World News Archive - 2000

 

December 2000

If women were deciding who the next leader of the United States would be, Vice President Gore would have won by a landslide.

November 2000

Record number of women elected to the U. S. Senate and House of Representatives. The net gain was only three new female seats.  At that rate it will take a hundred years for women to achieve equal membership in the House. 

Special Report for Shevolution.com by George A Dean, Co-Chair of the Women's Campaign School (Yale) and Founder of 50/50 by 2020. (click here)

"Women will determine the outcome of these (US) elections." -Eleanor Smeal, President of the Feminist Majority Foundation.  

Find out more about the Gender Gap in Voting, and coverage of the US elections by visiting the Feminist Majority Organisation (click here)

Almost half of all FTSE 100 companies (the largest 100 companies) in the UK have no women on their Board.

Report by Alison Maitland on FT.com. click here for more

Women entrepreneurs in Africa feel impeded by the gender-divide.  Problems highlighted include lack of access to investment credit due to women not having property registered under their name.  

Report by Ghion Hagos for the Panafrican News Agency on AllAfrica.com.  click here for more 

October 2000

Zambia adopts National Gender Policy to recognise the need for equal and full participation of women and men at all levels of national development.  

Report by Mildred Mulenga for the Pan African News Agency on AllAfrica.com.  click here for more

The UN Security Council has held a session to discuss women's role in peacekeeping operations.  The executive director of the UN Development Fund for Women, Noeleen Heyzer, urged the Security Council to take specific actions to improve women's protection and support their peace-building efforts.

Report by Jerome Hule for the Panafrican News Agency on AllAfrica.com.  click here for more

September 2000

Only one in three of the German population feels that women have won equality at work, according to a nationwide survey by the influential Allensbach Institute. click here for more

2 women are frontrunners for the recently vacant e-envoy post in the UK.  click here for more

39 per cent of leading French dot.com companies have employed more women than men in new positions according to research by Sofres carried out on the top 250 sites in France.  click here for more

Women in France feel that inequalities with men have narrowed in many areas of life, except pay.  Research was carried out earlier this year by Sofres into the changing situation of women over the last 20 years. click here for more - (French language only)

August 2000

 

Lack of money cripples women candidates in the US.

Women are more likely to be bothered by negative campaigning than men according to a survey about the US Presidential Election campaign.  To see details click here.

July 2000

 

Taliban arrests American Aid worker because she employed Afghan women, violating a new edict to sack all female staff.

 

Testimonies on domestic violence for an all-party UK parliamentary group have been gathered via the web so that women affected could speak "safe in the knowledge that noone knew them, there would be no comeback."  They will form the basis of evidence that could be the first time an Act of Parliament has been influenced by web-based testimonies in the UK.