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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.
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 ...
[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.
As Mexico's national congress assembled this past weekend, women occupied 47.8 percent of the seats in the lower house, the Chamber of Deputies, and 49.2 percent of the seats in the Senate. The ...
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]
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 ]
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.
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