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Women in national legislatures (as of 1 September 2022) Country Lower House Upper House Last Election Seats Women % W Last Election Seats* Women % W Rwanda: 2018: 80 49 61.3 2019 26 9 34.6 Cuba: 2018: 586 313 53.4
In many countries, women have been underrepresented in the government and different institutions. [1] As of 2019, women were still underrepresented, but were increasingly being elected to be heads of state and government. [2] [3] As of October 2019, the global participation rate of women in national-level parliaments was 24.5%. [4]
The following is a list of women who have been elected or appointed head of state or government of their respective countries since the interwar period (1918–1939). The first list includes female presidents who are heads of state and may also be heads of government, as well as female heads of government who are not concurrently head of state, such as prime ministers.
In the House, the number of women serving is set to decrease (albeit slightly) for the first time since the 102nd Congress, which began in 1991.
[29] Bolshevik doctrine aimed to free women economically from men, and this meant allowing women to enter the workforce. The number of women who entered the workforce rose from 423,200 in 1923 to 885,000 in 1930. [30] To achieve this increase of women in the workforce, the new communist government issued the first Family Code in October 1918. [31]
Just 3 of 27 government ministers are women, and importantly, since 1997, China has fallen to 53rd place from 16th in the world in terms of female representation at its parliament, the National People's Congress, according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union. [163]
Women have served in the United States House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the United States Congress, since 1917 following the election of Republican Jeannette Rankin from Montana, the first woman in Congress. [1] In total, 396 women have been U.S. representatives and eight more have been non-voting delegates. As of January 3, 2025 ...
The country has never qualified for a FIFA World Cup. [241] Basketball is another sport which enjoys much popularity for both men and women. [242] The country's men's national team had its most successful year in 2013 when it qualified for the AfroBasket, the continent's prime basketball event.