Out in front is Rwanda, where women hold more than 60 per cent of seats and which in 2008 became the first country to have a female-majority parliament. Women also outnumber men in Cuba (56 per cent) and Nicaragua (52 per cent). New Zealand, Mexico, Andorra and the United Arab Emira...
The aim of this study is to contribute to the empirical literature on the antecedents of deforestation. Specifically, we investigate the relationship between female parliamentarism and forest cover change. Based on annual data from more than 176 countries between 1990 and 2015, the estimates suggest...
BEIRUT, April 7 (Xinhua) -- An unprecedented number of 118 women are running for the elections of the 128-seat Lebanese parliament scheduled for May 15, a move hailed by many as a significant step toward restoring hope for change in a country beset by political and economic troubles. The ...
8 in 2022. Women have made up around 40% of the lower chamber of Dutch parliament in recent years, and in 2023, women held a majority in the country’s Cabinet for the first time in Dutch history, but that share has since dropped. Dutch women are also by far the most significant ...
She was involved in political activism throughout her life and served in the Italian parliament between 1983 to 1987. Animated by a profound sense of justice, she engaged with passion in various humanitarian issues, such as the lowering of the price of bread, support for Palestinian children, ...
Women in business Richest woman Number of funding deals in women-led startups Women ownership of MSMEs Representation of women Share of women in managerial positions Share of women in leadership roles in the education sector Share of seats held by women in national parliament Crime ag...
第一章【论文的目的】密尔开篇即提出论文的目的:两性从属的法定原则是错误的,并成为人类进步的主要阻碍,应以平等原则取代。That the principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes—the legal subordination of one sex to the other—is wrong in itself, and now one of the ch...
Economic inactivity rate of women in Italy Italian regions with highest shares of NEET women Participation in politics Most common political activity undertaken by women in Italy Share of female mayors in Italy Number of female Senators in Italy's Parliament Number of female Deputies in Ita...
At a press conference related to the event, Prime Minister of Iceland Katrin Jakobsdottir said her country's parliament saw a fall in 2017 in the percentage of women lawmakers to below 40 percent from nearly 50 percent. She blamed the political parties in Iceland for the drop. "The majority...
The Mission also called for the immediate release of Siham Sergewa, a member of the House of Representatives (parliament), who was abducted in 2019 by unidentified gunmen in eastern Libya and taken to an unknown location. "Violence, intimidation, and arbitrary detention against women in general ...