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Nov 24, 2021 · On average, women occupied under a third of ministerial positions across the bloc. Malta had the least number of women in its government with women accounting for just 7.7% of the country's top...
Mar 8, 2021 · In this map, we dig into how much political power women hold around the world. The Council on Foreign Relations pulls the latest data from UN Women and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) to examine the shares of women holding ministerial positions in 195 national cabinets.
Mar 14, 2024 · Created by CFR’s Women and Foreign Policy program, the Women’s Power Index ranks 193 UN member states on their progress toward gender parity in political participation.
Oct 5, 2020 · Many newly independent nations adopted universal suffrage along with new governments and constitutions. Bhutan, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait are the most recent countries or territories to allow women to participate in national elections, although the picture is complicated.
- Katherine Schaeffer
They are still deeply under-represented in government leadership, at less than one in four Cabinet Ministers, with men continuing to dominate critical portfolios such as the economy, defence, and energy. Full democracy needs the equal participation of women in all its processes.
In many countries, women have been underrepresented in the government and different institutions. This historical tendency still persists, although women are increasingly being elected to be heads of state and government. As of October 2019, the global participation rate of women in national-level parliaments is 24.5%.
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On a scale where 100 equals gender balance, Sweden and Finland are currently the only EU countries to score over 90 on the ' political p ower' indicator, which is based on the share of women ministers, m embers of p arliament or members of regional assemblies.
