Yesterday I went to a United Nations Development Program (UNDP) event on Women's political participation around the world. The statistics are staggering--women have a long way yet to come in equality in politics. I won't try to regurgitate them here, but you can get a sense of it from the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) memo on women in parliaments.
The most interesting thing about the issue of Women's poltical participation is that it doesn't matter if you are a developed or developing nation... it seems to be that the newer your consitution is the more likely you are to have higher paricipation of women in parliament.
Interesting food for weekend thought.
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