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Her campaign platform promised to focus on improving the living conditions of women, as well as addressing unemployment and fighting corruption. [ 10 ] Zainal was elected in December 2018 alongside five other women, winning her seat outright against the incumbent, Khalifa al-Ghanim, who had narrowly defeated her in 2014.
[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.
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.
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, 24 days First of two Muslim women in Congress. Born to a Muslim family of Palestinian immigrants. [7 ...
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 ...
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]
As of 2012, in the national parliament men held 88% of the seats while women held 12%. [38] The Syrian Parliament was previously led by female Speaker Hadiya Khalaf Abbas, the first woman to have held that position. [39] President Assad's political and media adviser is Bouthaina Shaaban.