In 2008, Rwandans elected women to 56 percent of the seats in the Chamber of Deputies, making Rwanda the first nation to break the halfway mark in a lower house of parliament and placing it nine percentage points above second-place Sweden (as of December 2010, that has increased to 11 percentage points). Just 14 years […]
Author Archives: Roxane Wilber
Roxane Wilber is a senior researcher and writer at the Institute for Inclusive Security, where she conducts primary and secondary research on women’s leadership in peace-building, politics, and other areas. She has recently focused on Bosnia’s war of the 1990s and on the rise of women’s leadership in Rwanda.