Rwanda first country to elect female majority
source: http://www.economist.com/daily/chartgallery/displayStory.cfm?story_id=12252712&source=featur...
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FROM gaining the right to vote to holding office, women have achieved much in the battle for equal political rights. But on many counts, progress has been slow. In the 100 years since women were first elected to a national parliament, only 18.4% of seats worldwide are currently held by women. To address this, some 110 countries have introduced rules to help women get elected. Rwanda's has been the most successful—this week, thanks to a 30% seat guarantee, it became the first country in the world to elect a majority of women to parliament. Opponents of quotas say that women such as Tzipi Livni, the new leader of Israel's ruling party, do pretty well without them.
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That's really interesting! I'm not a huge supporter of quotas, as I believe that the best person should be given the job. But if they help get passed the bias against women being the best suited, then by all means. I'm interested to see how the female majority conducts itself, and whether it will be different, and successful, enough for more countries to start seeing passed the gender bias.
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