(c) Women Leaders for WASH.

On 13 projects the leaders were women, and on 32 projects the leaders were men, information that indicates the quality of women researchers.

Women have been increasingly active as indigenous leaders.

Sheryl Sandberg Why we have too few women leaders

Development and implementation of Training and Advancement of Women Leaders project

Statistics reveal that most savings cooperatives with women leaders are successful.

Serve Your Way to the Top The Secret of Great Women Leaders .

Can either party really win by appealing to gender? Women do like to see other women emerge as leaders.

Both women therefore represent very different choices as leaders and potential role models.

Leaders from the President down have condemned discrimination against women on various occasions.

Switzerland began work with media to improve the public perception of women leaders.

Collaboration and nurturing of women leaders in different organizations, including professional organizations, political parties, youth movements and women oriented NGO's.

The Authority had trained 1,000 community leaders to promote the advancement of women and sponsored financial empowerment projects for women.

Rape and other forms of sexual violence against women should be openly discussed by governments, members of parliament, militia leaders, and opinion leaders.

Women do not have solidarity towards each other they do not support women leaders and do not vote for female politicians.

In 2005, for instance, women cooperative leaders from Saraburi Province were honoured as model cooperative leaders among cooperatives using water resources all over the country.

There are few women also among leaders of regional departments and associations of political parties.

So are today s women leaders the real deal or just figureheads? The answer is likely to be the same for men and women.

I do not mean to dismiss the many women leaders in the Muslim world who regard veiling as a means of controlling women.

In 2004, women leaders had signed a Declaration of commitment on violence against women, women's rights and education, HIV AIDS among women, new forms of contraception for women and equal access to assistance.

The United States developed and implemented training of women leaders as part of international assistance programmes.

In Kuwait, a 1.7 million project on women and governance was funded by the Government to help women leaders participate in their first election.

The women leaders I met in Amman were not saying, Please tell the West to save us.

Outside of the male domain, women participate frequently and often their views are sought by the community leaders.

Women were given the opportunity to speak mostly as ordinary citizens rather than as experts or opinion leaders.

The Committees therefore seek to bring together all sections of the community including teachers, tribal leaders, religious leaders, women, police, soldiers, judges, and businesspeople to develop ways of resolving conflicts non violently.

Support for 84 indigenous women leaders to increase their leadership skills, confidence and level of involvement in community development

OHCHRB conducted two regional workshops for women leaders of grass roots communities 96 women from 8 provinces attended the workshops, whose main topic was mechanisms to combat sexual violence.

The Government also challenges stereotypes by highlighting women leaders through national awards, such as the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency's annual Business Achievement Awards (see www.eowa.gov.au ).

A new programme for senior women leaders and new organizational development tools that model effective managers and departments were introduced.

Training 1,000 community leaders to assist in implementing the diverse aspects of advancing the status of women in the community.

The affiliates include large groups of farmers, women leaders and young people from different parts of the state of Rajasthan.

The Coordinating Agency operates within a strong partnership with the indigenous Brazilian peoples and their leaders, many of them women.

In India, Walking for Water, a convening of village women from many states, organized women into water user groups, transforming them into village leaders and economically productive members of the community.

Women hear over and over that we have to be twice as good as men to be perceived as successful, deserving leaders.

It was no accident that communist countries were (and are) usually run by geriatric leaders, and democracies by younger men and women.

Women's progress has to a large extent been reflective of the lack of support they gain from leaders both men and women.

As the number of women among leaders of political parties is small, women also have limited possibilities to participate in making important decisions, such as drawing up of lists of candidates for elections.

Islamist leaders have imposed new restrictions on women, including prohibitions on work, bans on travel without a muhram (male guardian), and compulsory veiling.

Some ethnic groups still follow matriarchal system and women are leaders of the family, thus having the right to decide their family's properties.

While there is an acknowledgement by Government that progress has been slow, women leaders themselves have commented that there have been notable changes.

Responsiveness to the views of stakeholders and community leaders needs to be balanced with a core commitment to the human rights of women.

The objective of the Indonesian Association of Women Entrepreneurs (IWAPI) is the empowerment of women entrepreneurs, in particular those in micro, small and medium enterprises. IWAPI is also a member of the Women Leaders' Network of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (WLN APEC).

In March, government and civil society leaders will gather in New York for a meeting of the UN Commission on the Status of Women to agree on a plan to eliminate violence against women.

Recently, women leaders in Mindanao have been pursuing projects to empower the women of southern Philippines to be channels for respect for cultural diversity and for the building of a more inclusive Mindanao society.