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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.
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
Hilda Kari was the first woman directly elected to the National Parliament in 1989. [186] Somalia: 1979: 18 women [9] South Africa: 1933: Leila Reitz [187] South Korea: 1946: Hwang Shin-duk Park Hyun-sook Park Seung-ho Shin Eui-kyung [188] The four were appointed members. Louise Yim became the first woman elected to parliament in 1949 [189 ...
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.
Tunisian Parliament is unique as more than 30% of representatives are women, the highest female representation of any Arab country. [61] Upon passage of the legislative reform, parliamentarians broke into cheers and chants of the Tunisian national anthem. [ 52 ]
The Women's Fraction of the Islamic Consultative Assembly was formed in 2000 in the Sixth term of the parliament [15] for considering issues related to women and the family. [16] This fraction was marginalized in the seventh, eighth, and ninth terms of the parliament due to the dominance of conservatives , and its function was more or less ...
Since 1964, Libyan women have had the right to vote and to participate in political life. [7] [8] [9] Since then, the government has encouraged women to participate in elections and national political institutions, but in 1987 only one woman had advanced as far as the national cabinet, as an assistant secretary for information and culture. [6]
There were only 16 women in a field of more than 2,000 candidates. Opinion polls conducted at the time showed that 70% of Egyptian men were opposed to the idea of women taking seats in Parliament. [6] Nevertheless, Ateya overcame the odds and received 110,807 votes in her constituency. [5]