Nepal Elections: Why Can’t the Mayor Be a Woman?

InAsia

InAsia
Nepal Elections: Why Can’t the Mayor Be a Woman?
May 10, 2022
The Asia Foundation

Fourteen thousand women won political office in Nepal’s first local elections in 2017. With the 2022 elections now just days away, our guest, Sumina Karki, asks why so few women ran at the top of the ticket.