Subject(s): Political activity -- Women in development -- Feminism -- Women's rights -- Women executives -- Women in Social networks -- Women in Social conditions -- Women in Economic condition -- Women in Legal status, laws -- Obstacles and opportunities : Forms of participation, factors affecting women's political participation, women's diversity, political participation and empowerment process -- Women's participation is not new : New women's organizations emerge, international women's organization, women's peace movement -- Women mobilizing and organizing : Feminism, feminism in practice, power of information, women in trade unions and workers movement, religious groups, working with men in international NGOs -- Participation in politics and public life : Women in parliaments, women at ministerial level, women heads of state government, women in political parties, national and international civil service, mechanisms for increasing women's participation, women in movements for liberation and democracy -- Women and development : Women in development approaches, new visions of development, mainstreaming women, gender and development, mainstreaming and gender planning strategies, empowerment approaches -- International mobilization of women in and around the united nations : Women and united nations agenda, international women's year, first world conference on women and decade for women, convention on elimination of all forms of discrimination against women, mid-decade conference on women, international women's organizations, end of decade and new beginnings, new opportunities and challenges in 1990s -- women empowerment