Democracy and Gender equality

Democracy and Gender equality Women’s participation is a central element of democracy, the nature and degree of women’s participation is a key indicator of the quality of democratic culture. In the light of that if a democracy neglects women’s participation, and it ignores voices, or if it shirks accountability for women’s rights or this case a democracy is for only half of citizens. So it is consider democracy an incubator for gender equality because it has a power to provide a public space for discussion of women rights and the process of their empowerment, that it is easier for women to practice their political, civil, economic and social rights.it is also a strong relationship between women’s participation and rights, and the building of democracy. If women need democracy in order to flourish, in the same time also democracy needs women to be representative, and enduring. For these reason that the quality of democracy is determined not only by the form of institutions, but also by the extent that different social groups participate in these institutions. Hereof, the gender of democracy matters profoundly and the absence of women from political life results in democratization with a male face or in a "male democracy" an incomplete form of democracy. In another hand today, across the world , modern women are key players in of democracy and cultural change , democracy and women's rights movements have appeared more or less in side by side and these tow processes are closely intertwined and even depend on one another when try to Separate two conceptually in political it is dangerous. This is because women can pay a high price when a democratic process is launched without strong institutions and without firmly-established principles of equality and the rights of all citizens and in such situation a party based on parental norms can come to power through free elections and then move to relegate women to second-class citizenship.