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Women in world political arena

02 March 2007 15:22 (UTC +04:00)

Out of 192 UN member states 19 are governed by women, APA reports. UK and Denmark are ruled by queen, presidents of Chile, Finland, Ireland, Latvia, Liberia, Philippines and Switzerland are women, and Israelâ€™s acting president is a woman. Prime ministers of Germany, Jamaica, New Zealand, Mozambique, South Korea and the Netherlands are women.
17.2% of the parliamentarians in one-house parliaments and 15.9% of the parliamentarians in Upper house of parliaments are women. Women are mostly represented in the parliaments of Scandinavian countries (40%).
In South and Northern America it is 21.7%, in European countries 17.4%, in Africa 16.6%, in Asia 16.4%, Arabian countries 9.3%. Over 30% of women are presented in 19 countriesâ€™ parliaments. 48.8% of Rwandaâ€™s parliament, 45.3% of Swedish parliament, 37.3% of Norwegian parliament, 37.5% of Finlandâ€™s parliament, 26.9% of Denmarkâ€™s parliament consist of women.
The US is the 83th among them.
Women are not represented at all in the parliaments of 11 countries. They are Bahrain, Kyrgyzstan, Micronesia, Nauru, Nepal, Palau, Saint-Kitts and Nevis, Saudi Arabia, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and United Arab Emirates.
Women have no right to vote in some countries, for example Saudi Arabia. In Peru women were given the right to vote in 1977, in Sweden in 19971 and in Japan in 1945. For the first time woman was chosen the member of the government in Denmark. Nina Beng was appointed Education Minister of the country in 1928.
The first woman president was elected in Argentine; Isabel Peron won the elections in 1974. Women have not been represented in the governments of Andorra and Saudi Arabia. Swedish government set up the record for the number of the women represented in government in 1991. Nine of the 20 members of the government were women. /APA/