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  2. Women's representation in the Parliament of Nepal - Wikipedia

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    In the election, 191 women leaders (33.2%) were elected out of 575 seats, [10] and Cabinet nominated 6 women out of 26 seats, resulting to 197 women members (32.8%) in the Legislative parliament. As a result, Nepal stands on the 14th position globally to send the women leaders in the legislature parliament. [11]

  3. Category : Women members of the Parliament of Nepal

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    This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Members of the Parliament of Nepal. It includes Members of the Parliament of Nepal that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.

  4. Women in Nepal - Wikipedia

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    As most women in Nepal are working as the unpaid labor force in the family and more than 76% of women are involved in agriculture, there is no recognition of their contribution to the economic advantages that the family gets in return. In Nepal only 19% of women have ownership of the fixed assets, whereas 25% of women are head of households.

  5. 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 ...

  6. Federal Parliament of Nepal - Wikipedia

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    The former Parliament of Nepal was dissolved by King Gyanendra in 2002, [1] on the grounds that it was incapable of handling the Maoist rebels. The country's five main political parties had staged protests against the king, arguing that he must either call fresh elections or reinstate the elected legislature.

  7. List of female speakers of national and territorial ...

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    Many women have been elected to parliaments around the world, starting around the first quarter of 20th century. Some of them were entrusted to take the position of Speaker of the parliament. In government, unicameralism (Latin uni, one + camera, chamber) is the practice of having one legislative or parliamentary chamber. Thus, a unicameral ...

  8. 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.

  9. House of Representatives (Nepal) - Wikipedia

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    The 1959 constitution of the Kingdom of Nepal, proclaimed on 12 February 1959, first mentions the Pratinidhi Sabha first as follows: "There shall be a Parliament which shall consist of His Majesty and two Houses, to be known respectively as the Senate and the House of Representatives (Pratinidhi Sabha)" (Article No. 18, Constitution of the Kingdom of Nepal, 1959).