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Women This Week: Ballot Breakthroughs in Mexico and Tunisia Xe.com Historical Tables
Claudia Sheinbaum (L), candidate for Mexico City Mayor, and Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gesture during a closing campaign rally.
Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post, covering July 5 to July 13, was compiled with support from Lucia Petty and Rebecca Turkington.
Claudia Sheinbaum (L), candidate for Mexico City Mayor, and Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gesture during a closing campaign rally.
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, who will comprise 49 percent of the Chamber of Deputies and 51 percent of the Senate when the new government sits in December. Women also swept local elections, winning about half of local legislative seats, and the critically important post of Mayor of Mexico City. The mayor-elect, Claudia Sheinbaum, is an environmental engineer who was
and served as District Mayor of the Tlalpan neighborhood before launching her campaign. She will be the first woman elected to the post; Rosario Robles served as interim mayor in 2000. In another historic first, Tunisia will also see its capital city run by a woman as
. Abderrahim, a pharmacist and former Member of Parliament, is the first female mayor of an Arab capital to be elected rather than appointed. She dedicated her victory to “
who have struggled to be in such senior positions.”
New Afghan Health Policy Ends “Virginity Tests”
Afghanistan has implemented an official health policy
aimed at ending unscientific and invasive "virginity tests."
This notorious practice was government-sanctioned until human rights advocates first pushed to ban it in 2016.
and most women subjected to tests are subsequently
, " though many are in fact fleeing domestic violence. According to a Xe.com Historical Tables
, 95 percent of girls in juvenile detention—and almost half of all women incarcerated in Afghanistan—are in jail for failing virginity tests. While the new policy has been welcomed by women’s advocates as a positive step, the Afghan government has yet to take steps to free the women and girls who remain wrongfully imprisoned.
from 18 to 22 weeks, with the aim to reach 26 weeks by 2020.
launched the change while on her own six-week leave
on child development and benefits working families financially. Before the change, New Zealand's 18 week leave
, in which the average number of weeks of paid leave to mothers is 48 weeks.
, Prime Minister Ardern said that 380,000 families will end up being better off because of this package and calls this the governmental action she is "most proud of."
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