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Seeing women govern encourages support for women in politics – with no apparent backlash among men

By Vladimir Chlouba, Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond

After the main Namibian party started alternating candidates between men and women, female representation in the National Assembly nearly doubled.

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