Women in Politics Overview

Women in Politics in Comparative PerspectiveThursdays, 9:30 – 11:30, Room 242Graduate School for Social ResearchInstructor: Dr. Joshua Kjerulf Dubrow

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Total MPs 44,649Men 35,657

Women 8,460Percentage of women 19.2%

Single Houseor lower House

Upper House

or Senate

Both Housescombined

Nordic countries 42.1% --- ---Americas 22.5% 22.6% 22.5%Europe - OSCE with Nordic 22.0% 19.4% 21.5%

Europe - OSCE non-Nordic 20.1% 19.4% 19.9%

Sub-Saharan Africa 19.0% 20.9% 19.2%Asia 18.7% 17.0% 18.5%Pacific 13.2% 32,6% 15.3%Arab States 11.1% 8.1% 10.5%

WORLD CLASSIFICATION

Rank CountryLower or single House Upper House or Senate

Elections Seats* Women % W Elections Seats* Women % W

1 Rwanda 2008 80 45 56.3% 2003 26 9 34.6%

2 Sweden 2006 349 162 46.4% --- --- --- ---

3 South Africa 2009 400 178 44.5% 2009 54 16 29.6%

4 Cuba 2008 614 265 43.2% --- --- --- ---

5 Iceland 2009 63 27 42.9% --- --- --- ---

6 Netherlands 2010 150 61 40.7% 2007 75 26 34.7%

7 Finland 2007 200 80 40.0% --- --- --- ---

8 Norway 2009 169 67 39.6% --- --- --- ---

9 Belgium 2010 150 59 39.3% 2010 40 17 42.5%

10 Mozambique 2009 250 98 39.2% --- --- --- ---

* Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania, USSR to Russian Federation

International IDEAInternational IDEA

Democracy and Gender

The pursuit of democracy is incomplete without policies, measures and practices that seek to reduce inequalities between men and women in all spheres of life and

which anchor democracy and its intersection with gender. Democracy is supposed to transform power relations between men and women by promoting

the equal distribution of power and influence between women and men.

About Quotas

This website reveals that the use of electoral quotas for women is much more widespread than is commonly held. An increasing number of countries are currently

introducing various types of gender quotas for public elections: In fact, half of the countries of the world today use some type of electoral quota for their parliament.

Rutgers University Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP)

The Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP), a unit of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is

nationally recognized as the leading source of scholarly research and current data about American women’s political participation.

Welcome to the web site for the ECPR Standing Group on Gender & Politics!

The ECPR Standing Group on Gender and Politics has been in existence since 1985. This standing group currently has over 300 members from different parts of the world and forms a broad-based network on issues

relating to the study of gender and sexuality in politics and world politics. The group actively encourages workshops, panels and research groups

with an emphasis on gender and seeks to increase the profile of women in the main fields of political science.