Senegal will break new ground Monday as West Africa's largest-ever proportion of women MPs take their seats in a newly elected legislature, stirring hopes of change in a country where patriarchal laws and attitudes are entrenched.

More than 44 percent of seats in Senegal's next National Assembly will be held by women -- the biggest share of any country in the region.

But hopes for dramatic progress on issues ranging from reproductive rights to domestic violence also have to be balanced with political reality.

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