Women have been kicking through the glass ceiling in many areas of Korean society over the past decades. But, it was only recently that the phenomenon spread to politics, long regarded as a male domain.

The three political parties led by women control a total of 262 seats in the country’s 299-member single unicameral National Assembly.

The rise of women politicians comes as political parties suffer through a crisis of confidence amid a series of corruption scandals.

If none of the eight women candidates in the second round of the local government election on December 26 gets elected, Trashigang will have only one woman candidate from the 209 posts available in the dzongkhag.

“For the time being, Cheki Wangmo is be the only women representative in  entire Trashigang, but the situation should improve after the second round of LG elections,” said Sonam Wangda.  Before the former local government structure was dissolved, seven percent of LG members were women.

A landmark bill aimed at guaranteeing 22 women-only seats in the parliament of Papua New Guinea has failed to get the votes required as the nation's political crisis continues.

PNG's current political crisis, with the two rival camps each maintaining they are the government, saw Mr O'Neill fail to have the the necessary two thirds majority of 109 MPs required for constitutional changes.

Dame Carol Kidu, the country's only female MP who has fought courageously for this bill, cut a lonely figure as she sat in opposition benches, the only MP from the Somare camp who turned up today.

The vote was rescinded and rescheduled for debate next year.