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Arab women are under-represented in parliaments in Arab states, although they are gaining more equal representation as Arab states liberalise their political systems. In 2005, the International Parliamentary Union said that 6.5 per cent of MPs in the Arabic-speaking world were women, up from 3.5 per cent in 2000.
This was the highest number of women in the Lebanese parliament at the time and despite the accomplishment, Lebanon was ranked 125th out of 138 nations concerning women's representation in parliament by the Inter-Parliamentary Union due to women making up only 4.7% of its cabinet. [40]
Women in national legislatures (as of 1 September 2022) Country Lower House Upper House Last Election Seats Women % W Last Election Seats* Women % W Rwanda: 2018: 80 49 61.3 2019 26 9 34.6 Cuba: 2018: 586 313 53.4
Despite only six women contesting the election out of a total of over 2,000 candidates, and 70% of Egyptian men being against their presence in parliament, [4] Rawya Ateya and Amina Shukri were elected, becoming the first women parliamentarians in the Arab world. [3] [5] Following its election, the 350-member National Assembly was seated on 22 ...
Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell CBE (14 July 1868 – 12 July 1926) was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, and archaeologist.She spent much of her life exploring and mapping the Middle East, and became highly influential to British imperial policy-making as an Arabist due to her knowledge and contacts built up through extensive travels.
Party Portrait Name Constituency First office held Year appointed Ethnicity Labour: Shahid Malik [2]: Dewsbury: Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development
She also wrote an autobiography, A Woman of Egypt (ISBN 0-7432-3708-0), published by Simon & Schuster in 1987, as well as poetry in Arabic, under a pseudonym. Her second memoir, My Hope for Peace, was released in March 2009. Jehan Sadat died on 9 July 2021, at the age of 87. Prior to her death she had reportedly been battling cancer. [8]
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Arab people. It includes Arab people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. The main article for this category is Arab women .