Increase in the number of women parliamentarians around the world.
Increase in the number of women parliamentarians around the world.
Women Reservation Bill 2023: Women’s Reservation Bill (Nari Shakti Vandan Act) was passed by Lok Sabha today through voice vote in the new Parliament House. There was a tussle going on between the government and the opposition for almost three decades on this bill. As soon as this bill is passed, 33 percent reservation will be fixed in Parliament and State Assemblies. Regarding this bill, there is a competition between the government and the opposition to take credit again. While Congress is claiming this bill as its own, BJP is saying that it is the will power of Prime Minister Narendra Modi that has made this bill a reality. Apart from this politics, we know what is the status of women MPs (Country With Highest Female Representation in Parliament) in countries around the world.
More women than ever are in political decision-making positions around the world, but gender equality is still a long way off, according to the Geneva-based Inter-Parliamentary Union’s latest 2023 report. Be it executive positions or the number of women in national parliaments, in most countries the number of women MPs is less than that of men. Analyzing the data as of January 1, 2023, it has been found that 11.3 percent of the countries in the world have a female head of state (17 out of 151 countries, excluding monarchy-based systems) and 9.8% of the countries have a female head of government (19 out of 193 ) Are. Talking about the last decade, the status of women has improved in this decade. Last decade, the percentage of female heads of state was 5.3 and the percentage of female heads of government was 7.3. However, this report shows that women MPs have not yet achieved the status they deserve.
Most women cabinet ministers in Europe and America
The IPU report shows that by January 1, 2023, women represent 22.8% of cabinet ministers (Percentage of women in parliament). Women have the highest share in cabinets in Europe and North America at 31.6 percent, followed by Latin America and the Caribbean at 30.1 percent. If we talk about other fields, the representation of women is very less. Women represent 10.1 percent in Central and Southern Asia and 8.1 percent in Oceania, excluding Australia and New Zealand. There are only 13 countries where the number of women in the cabinet is above 50 percent or more. The special thing is that most of these 13 countries are in Europe.
In which country what percentage of women are in the cabinet (How Many Female Leaders in World)
If we talk about the cabinet, Albania is at the first position. Here 66.7 percent women are in the cabinet. At the same time, 64.3 percent women are in the cabinet in Finland, 63.6 in Spain, 62.5 in Nicaragua, 60 in Liechtenstein, 58.3 in Chile, 57.1 in Belgium, 55.0 in Mozambique and 50 percent in Andorra, Colombia, Germany, Netherlands and Norway. Apart from this, there are 17 additional countries, where the representation of women among cabinet ministers is between 40 and 49.9 percent. Out of these 17 countries, 9 countries are also in Europe.
Number of women MPs in India is 12 percent (Female Percentage in Parliament in India)
Another IPU report states that the number of women representatives in India is around 12 percent. India is ranked 150th in this list. Talking about Pakistan, at that time it was at number 101. This means that India was far behind Pakistan in the number of women MPs. Now with the passing of the Nari Shakti Vandan Act, 33 percent reservation will be fixed for women MPs. At present the number of women MPs is 82 and with the passing of this bill by both the houses, the number of women MPs will be 181.
