Supportive community attitudes are essential in improving’s women’s involvement in leadership and decision making. Initiated through Pacific Women, the Balance of Power is a dedicated leadership program aiming to address the deeply entrenched social norms that define and legitimise leadership in the Pacific. It operates in Vanuatu and Tonga, and since late 2021, has expanded to Fiji.
Working to promote women as leaders poses many challenges in the Pacific, a region with the lowest levels of female parliamentary representation in the world underpinned by research that people’s attitudes and social norms largely fail to perceive women as the excellent leaders they are factually proven to be.
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