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Women Parliamentarians in Rwanda

September 26 , 2023 427 days 403 0

Globally, the average for women in parliament is around 24 per cent.
But the country with the highest percentage of women legislators in its Parliament is Rwanda.
It has 49 of its 80 Lower House seats occupied by women (around 61 per cent).
According to the World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap Index, in 2023, Rwanda ranked 12th out of 146 countries.
In 1994, more than 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were massacred at the hands of Hutu militias.
As a result, 70 per cent of the population was composed of women after the war.