Subject(s): Politics and political science -- Sociology -- Leadership in women. -- Women in public life -- ex discrimination against women -- Point of order, Mr speaker- African women claiming their space in parliment, from plam tree to parliment- training women for political leadership and public life, towards realistic strategies for women's political empowerment in Africa, collective action, organization building and leadership- women workers in the garment sector in Bangladesh, empowered leaders - perspectives on women heading households in latin America and Southern Africa, transformational leadership - advancing the agenda for gender justice, leadership for adolescent girls- role of secondary schools in Uganda, leadership role of international law in enforcing women's rights- optional protocol to women's convention, leadership for social transformation- some ideas and questions on institutions and feminist leadership -- women empowerment