Numbers of women in parliament remain low in Caucasus and Central Asia
Source: Eurasianet
The presence of women in parliaments across the Caucasus and Central Asia has risen in the last 25 years, albeit slowly: in most countries in the region, between 15 and 25 percent of their MPs are women.
That is the conclusion of a newly released project by the United Nations Development Programme, Equal Future.
Three countries in the region have laws mandating gender quotas for parliamentary elections: Armenia has a quota of 25 percent, and Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan each 30 percent. Nevertheless, all those countries’ proportion of women in the parliament still fall below their quota targets.
There doesn’t seem to be much correlation between the level of democratization in the countries and the amount of women in the parliaments: Georgia, the most democratic country in the region, ranks close to the bottom with only 15 percent of MPs being women. Highly repressive Turkmenistan, meanwhile, is close to the top of the regional rankings with 25 percent.
Click here to read the full article published by Eurasianet on 6 Mars 2020.
The presence of women in parliaments across the Caucasus and Central Asia has risen in the last 25 years, albeit slowly: in most countries in the region, between 15 and 25 percent of their MPs are women.
That is the conclusion of a newly released project by the United Nations Development Programme, Equal Future.
Three countries in the region have laws mandating gender quotas for parliamentary elections: Armenia has a quota of 25 percent, and Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan each 30 percent. Nevertheless, all those countries’ proportion of women in the parliament still fall below their quota targets.
There doesn’t seem to be much correlation between the level of democratization in the countries and the amount of women in the parliaments: Georgia, the most democratic country in the region, ranks close to the bottom with only 15 percent of MPs being women. Highly repressive Turkmenistan, meanwhile, is close to the top of the regional rankings with 25 percent.
Click here to read the full article published by Eurasianet on 6 Mars 2020.