In a world that fails women, cities step up

As in many other fields, women are underrepresented in politics. How can they make gender-sensitive policies if they are not in power? How can we strengthen democracy without taking women on board? Gender balance at the local level is doing much better than in European institutions but worse than at the national level, if we look at the average decision-making positions in EU countries, according to the European Institute of Gender Equality.

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