Politics
Mandy Gull-Masty becomes first Indigenous minister of Indigenous Services Canada
https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/mandy-gull-masty-becomes-first-indigenous-minister-of-indigenous-services-canada/
Political tension and fears of violence may have depressed voter turnout in 2024
https://19thnews.org/2025/05/voting-fears-women-gender-nonconforming-people/
Viking pregnancy was deeply political – new study
https://theconversation.com/viking-pregnancy-was-deeply-political-new-study-254738
‘Deal with the women’s issue or enjoy oblivion’: conservative women on whether they can still call the Liberal party home
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/10/liberal-party-women-say-watershed-moment-needed-to-win-them-back
Trump’s Orwellian erasure of women
https://time.com/7284644/trumps-erasure-of-women/
Government Launches One Time Scholarship Recognizing 100th Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage
https://vocm.com/2025/05/08/government-launches-one-time-scholarship-recognizing-100th-anniversary-of-womens-suffrage/
Quebec Solidaire introduces bill on free contraception for women in province
https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/quebec-solidaire-introduces-bill-on-free-contraception-for-women-in-province/
‘Whipped in front of everyone’: three women on being flogged by the Taliban
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/may/06/afghanistan-taliban-sharia-law-mahram-women-flogging-public-moral-crimes-guardians
Germany’s Social Democrats unveil majority-female ministerial team
https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/germanys-social-democrats-unveil-majority-female-ministerial-team/
Women political leaders are rare – but 450 years ago, Anna Jagiellon was elected Queen of Poland
https://theconversation.com/women-political-leaders-are-rare-but-450-years-ago-anna-jagiellon-was-elected-queen-of-poland-253033
Dropping misogyny law is sign of wider retreat – Baroness
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0el3j5j021o.amp
