TY - Briefing paper AU - International Women's Development Agency PY - 2018 T1 - Violence against women is a barrier to women’s leadership PB - International Women's Development Agency DO - https://doi.org/APO-217161 UR - https://apo.org.au/node/217161 AB - This briefing paper examines the factors involved in under-representation of women in political decision-making, worldwide. It sets out actions to mitigate this, using a case study from Papua New Guinea, where the Our Voice program advocated for the reform of electoral laws to increase women's political representation. ER -