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  2. List of the first female members of parliament by country

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    Haroun and al-Mosli were appointed members of the National Assembly of the United Arab Republic. Hana Hamwi, Boshra Kanafani, Munuar Mackluta, Salma Najeeb and Hajar Sadek became the first women elected to parliament in 1973. [196] Taiwan: 1948: Hsieh Er Lin Shen: Tanzania: 1955: Sheroo Keeka Elifuraha Marealle K.F. Walker [197] The three were ...

  3. List of Arab members of the Knesset - Wikipedia

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    There have been Israeli Arab members of the Knesset ever since the first Knesset elections in 1949. The following is a list of the 100 past and present members. Some Israeli Druze dispute the label "Arab" and consider Druze to be a separate ethnic group.

  4. Muslim women political leaders - Wikipedia

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    For the first time, six women were elected to parliament, and the Shah appointed two other women to the senate. [72]: 681 The number of women deputies also increased in the following parliamentary elections. In 1978, on the eve of the Islamic Revolution, 22 women were in the parliament.

  5. List of Arab and Middle Eastern Americans in the United ...

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    [1] [2] On November 6, 2018, four additional Arab Americans, all of whom are female, were elected to the U.S. House of Representatives: Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, Ilhan Omar, Donna Shalala, and Rashida Tlaib. Tlaib and Omar were also the first Muslim women in Congress. [3] The U.S. House of Representatives currently has five Arab-American members.

  6. List of Muslim members of the United States Congress

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    First of two Muslim women in Congress. First Muslim to succeed another Muslim. Born to a Muslim family in Somalia and immigrated as a refugee to the United States in 1995. [6] Rashida Tlaib: Democratic: MI-13: January 3, 2019: Incumbent 6 years, 8 days First of two Muslim women in Congress. Born to a Muslim family of Palestinian immigrants. [7 ...

  7. List of legislatures by female members - Wikipedia

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    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

  8. List of members of the twenty-fifth Knesset - Wikipedia

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    One Druze lawmaker, 29 women, 23 new MKs and three openly gay MKs were elected to the 25th Knesset. [3] The number of Arab MKs was the lowest in two decades with 10 MKs. [4] On 30 June 2024, the Israeli Labor Party announced plans to merge with Meretz to become The Democrats, [5] with Labor MKs expected to become MKs for the new party; the merger was approved on 12 July.

  9. Women in the Arab world - Wikipedia

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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.