Prime Minister Julia Gillard's ascendency deserves recognition for the historic moment that it is. Yet this new chapter for Australian women doesn't reflect the rest of their story in politics. Federally, concern is no longer about a lack of progression, but arresting a slide to regression.

IOM is supporting the social and economic reintegration of ex-combatants through employment training in road safety and business management skills.

Idaho Falls Police Officer Jessica Hunt knows women are the minority in law enforcement.

But, just in case she needed a reminder, the point is driven home to her when a community member unknowingly accuses her of driving her husband's patrol car around town when she's off duty.

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has expressed the hope that the ongoing ECOWAS Delocalized Parliament Meeting in Monrovia will give courage to the Liberian National Legislature to give serious consideration to the bill seeking 30 percent women participation in political representation.

Interim leader Rosa Otunbayeva has been sworn in as president of the troubled republic of Kyrgyzstan. Mrs Otunbayeva took power after bloody street riots in April which ousted President Kurmanbek Bakiyev. The former foreign minister becomes the first female president of an ex-communist Central Asian country.

50-year-old Mama Yeanoh Kakpa was last week elected as the first female town chief of Mandu in the Valunia chiefdom, Bo district, southern Sierra Leone.

Cendra Guillaume walks into the dusty depot of manly machines, passes fellow female workers, and steps into the front office with a familiar look of determination.

The Feminist Majority endorsed Elena Kagan today. In a press release, the Feminist Majority strongly encouraged the United States Senate to quickly confirm Elena Kagan. It further reads, "Solicitor General Kagan is superbly qualified for this position. She has distinguished herself throughout her academic and professional career and has the keen intellect, the compassion, and the broad experience needed to be an outstanding justice.

Women's rights campaigners say the Czech Republic's new government has effectively told women they have no relevance to the country's future after the new cabinet was formed – without a single female minister.

I see little common sense in Kalumba's article on Career women in Daily monitor of July 6. He apologises for sounding sexist but the entire article drips with triple distilled chauvinism and misogyny. Sadly, what Kalumba says is typically representative of the Ugandan male psyche...never accepting responsibility and always blaming women for their shortcomings. The time has come for Ugandan women to reject History and tell Herstory.