March 7, 2021 by NextTribe Editors · Activism

Only 4 Countries Have Equal Representation for Women in Government. They’re Not the Ones You’d Expect.

On International Women's Day, a new report shows we're decades away from gender parity in legislative bodies worldwide. We must do better.

We know that Western countries like to think of themselves as "advanced" and "evolved." But in terms of how the number of women in governing bodies compares to the number of men, they're far from it. Only four countries in the world have equal representation in their legislatures. How many are Western nations? A big fat goose egg.

This info comes from the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), which is made up of 179 national member parliaments and 13 regional parliaments. Every year, the organization takes a look at how countries are doing in achieving parity in their legislative bodies. This year’s report looks back at 25 years since the World Conference on Women's Right in Beijing, where a groundbreaking action plan for gender equality was introduced.

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