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USD / EUR / SLL / / /
Facility
Federal Electoral Institute / / /
IndustryTerm
quota law setting low expectations / gender parity law / quota law / gender parity law mandating / gender machinery / electoral law / electoral systems / electoral law amendment / election law / /
NaturalFeature
Sierra Leone / Pacific Island / /
Organization
conservative party / UMP Party / General Council / National Congress / Eta / National League for Democracy (NLD) / Federal Electoral Institute / Lao PDR / Technical Selection Committee / Senate / Medicare / Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judicial Branch / civil society / French National Assembly / Inter-Parliamentary Union / Green Party / Ministry of Youth and Women / Socialist Party / Center for American Women / Senate of Palau / Shura Council / US House of Representatives / Shura Council of Saudi Arabia / /
Person
Salvador Somalia Lithuania Georgia Burkina / Julia Gillard / Aung San Suu Kyi / Cawo Abdil / Gordon Darcy Lilo / Park Geun-Hye / Carol Kidu / Cécile Duflot / Deab Barrow / Nicholas Sarkozy / / /
PoliticalEvent
parliamentary elections / Senate races / /
Position
Prime Minister / President / VP Notes / General / VP Voluntary Party Quotas / Housing Minister / VP Sierra Leone^ / longstanding advocate / woman Governor / member of parliament / national decision-making led Prime Minister / Governor-General / representative / VP Serbia^ / MP / officer / VP Libya^ / woman Speaker / activist / /
Women in Parliament in 2012 The Year in Perspective The Year in Review 2012 represented nearly a 1 percentage-point increase in the world average (20.3%). With the exception of 2007, this is nearly double the annual rate