Read Politics

If such female candidate will become a president, it will burdensome women's engagement in politics. Full article is only available in Georgian.     

Why do the politicians think, that women voters needs are specific issues that is beyond the qualification of the Presidential candidates? Full article is only available in Georgian. 

What did Giorgi Margvelashvili manage to accomplish in terms of gender equality, empowerement of vulnarable groups and better protection of human rights? Full article is available only in Georgian.

Analysis of the pre-election campaigns during the 2017 local elections in Georgia highlights that political debates transformed into the competetion of masculinities, which had to prove the winner based on the masculine hierarchies.  

"What I always expected from a female politician was more sensitivity towards the gender related issues. This expectation turned our to be very naive."

2017 local elections in Georgia proved that women's and gender issues are in view of political agenda, but political campaigns still follow traditional, masculine ways to do politics.

"For the sake of strengthening of women's political participation, it is very important to guarantee that women do not appear in the party lists only before election period".

Project "Read Politics" analyzed schemes of arguments the voters used to discuss female politicians during 2017 local elections: how they justified or rejected involvement of women into politics.   

Local elections 2017 in Georgia have been observed and analyzed by the project Read Politics in terms of gender stereotypes and its influence on political subjects and their campaigns. 

"We have already discussed Bechdel test, which states, that if a work of fiction features at least two women who talk to each other about something other than a man - it is already very good. And if these women love each other - that's even better." [external_media:soundcloud.com/user-371501232/feminstream-4]