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#WomenLead (Issue 127): Your weekly round-up on women in politics
Hello, and welcome to Issue 127!
A very warm welcome to all new readers who have signed up for #WomenLead in recent weeks. We are thrilled to have you with us on this journey of chronicling important updates about women in politics from around the world.
In today’s edition, we bring you updates from India, Peru and the United States of America, while the spotlight is on new research from the United Kingdom. In case you missed last week’s edition, you can read it here.
Quick Updates
🔴 UNREPRESENTATIVE: Two Indian states recently held elections and the results were out last week. In Gujarat, 15 women have been elected to the state legislature. The number of men? 167! But wait, it gets worse.
In Himachal Pradesh, the other state that went to the polls, only one woman has been elected to the 68-member house. If you’re wondering what kind of representation shares these are in 2022, we are with you totally.
😡 VILE AGENDAS: Researchers at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue investigated hashtags recommendations on Instagram and TikTok for women politicians in the run-up to the November 2022 midterm elections in the USA and found that the platforms not only recommended abusive hashtags among the top ten searches for the women politicians studied, they also allowed a broad range of abusive content that violates their own terms of services.