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Nicaragua's parity law pushed women to 53.9% of National Assembly seats by 2024, the world's third-highest, but the same period saw Ortega-Murillo …
Passed unanimously by Ghana's Parliament on 30 July 2024 and assented to on 11 September 2024, Act 1121 mandates minimum 30% female …
FSM was the last Pacific nation never to elect a woman to national parliament until Dr. Perpetua Sappa Konman's 2021 by-election win. …
Venezuela's CNE has issued last-minute gender-parity rules since 2020, but compliance is weak: just 3 of 26 parties met the 2020 rules, …
Tunisia's 2014-17 electoral parity law lifted women's municipal council seats to 47% in 2018, but a 2022 law under President Kais Saied …
Since 2009, the Helene Weber Awards have recognized and trained elected female representatives in local government who have distinguished themselves through exceptional …
The “Women in politics: 2023” map, created by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and UN Women, presents new data for women in executive …
This toolkit has been designed in response to a growing desire by parliaments around the world to improve the way that they …
Gabon's 2016 quota law required 30% women on candidate lists and senior posts, but representation stagnated at 14-17% for most of 2016-2022. …
Algeria's 2012 quota law (Organic Law 12-03) lifted women's share of parliamentary seats from 7.7% to 31.6% by rejecting non-compliant lists outright. …
This research report builds on an earlier report published in May 2013 entitled, ‘The Full View: Advancing the goal of gender balance …
Kazakhstan's 2020 law requires 30% of party-list candidates be women, youth or disabled combined, not women specifically. A 2024 peer-reviewed study found …
Laos set a 30% target for women in its National Assembly, pursued via the Lao Women's Union and a National Commission. Representation …
Women held roughly 15–17% of seats in Myanmar's November 2020 parliament. After the February 2021 coup, the military's 16-member ruling council has …
Guinea-Bissau's 2018 Parity Law mandates a 36% minimum for women on candidate lists and in appointed bodies, but the 2023 elections returned …
Panama's Electoral Code requires 50% women on party candidate lists, but Article 373's 'escape clause' lets parties fill gaps with men when …
Zimbabwe's 2013 Constitution reserved 60 PR seats for women, raising female representation to 31.5% in 2018; however women won only 10% of …
The 50/50 Campaign #Women for Europe – #Europe for Women, is a campaign targeted to civil society, launched on 7 June 2018 …
This 2018 paper aims at summarizing the knowledge surrounding gender quotas – which are a quick gate-way to women’s political participation – …
This article, focused on representation of women in political and economic power, discusses the importance of women's participation in decision-making processes at …
In Germany, the representation of women at all federal levels in parliament has been stagnating for decades. This is mainly due to …
This working paper presents data and analysis on women’s representation in local government by UN Women as the sole custodian agency for …
Just four women were elected during the 2022 general election but a deeper analysis also shows that women contesting on the Labour …
No woman won a seat in Oman's October 2023 Shura Council election, despite 32 female candidates among 843 contenders. In June 2026 …
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