From selection to election: Restoring the mandate of the reserved fifty

Shortly after returning to Dhaka from Vancouver in early 2020, I found myself at a dinner table full of educated, professionally-accomplished men debating at length about who among their colleagues deserved a promotion to become an executive director.  Not once did a woman’s name come up.  What was at play seemed almost sinister --the invisible architecture of assumption, the unspoken... Details

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