ARMENIA RANKS 123RD IN THE RATING OF WOMEN REPRESENTATION IN PARLIAMENTS

ArmRadio.am
02.03.2007 13:23

Armenia occupies the 123rd position in the rating of women
representation in Parliaments, says the report of the Secretary General
of the UN Interparliamentary Union, which includes the statistics of
women representation in Parliaments.

According to the report, with respect to the representation of women
in Parliaments in post-Soviet countries, the situation is better
in Belarus, where women comprise 29.1% of the MPs. Thus, Belarus
is the 21st in the above-mentioned rating. Russia is 99th, Ukraine
ranks 105th. It is mentioned in the report that in many post-Soviet
countries the indices of women’s representation in Parliaments were
incomparably less than the average of 17%. Thus, women comprise about
11.3% in the legislative body of Azerbaijan, 10.4% in Kazakhstan, 9.4%
in Russia and Georgia, 8.7% in Ukraine and 5.3% in Armenia. There is
no woman in the Parliament of Kyrgyzstan.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress