🗳On #DemocracyDay we point out that
👩Men still hold more than 66% of the seats in the UK parliament despite a record number of women elected in December.
👩🏿Only 34% of councillors are women.
👵Only 24.3 per cent of all national parliamentarians were women as of February 2019, a slow increase from 11.3 per cent in 1995.
👩🏾Rwanda has the highest number of women parliamentarians worldwide, where, women have won 61.3 per cent of seats in the lower house.
👩🏻Globally, there are 27 States in which women account for less than 10 per cent of parliamentarians in single or lower houses, as of February 2019, including 3 chambers with no women at all.
👩🏻🦳Only 13 countries have had more than one woman leader.
👩🏻🦰Only 2 (New Zealand and Iceland) have had 3 women leaders.
👩🏻🦱Angela Merkel is currently the only G20 women leader.
🤱So far only two world leaders have ever given birth while holding office (the late Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan and Jacinda Ardern in New Zealand).
👱🏼♀️57 countries out of the 193 members of the UN have ever had a woman hold the highest political office with exec power
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