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kateoplis:

Rwanda has the highest percentage of parliament seats held by women in the world. Click through for more eye-opening stats. 

This is because Rwanda uses a strict quota system that reserves seats for women. See here: http://www.idea.int/publications/wip2/upload/Rwanda.pdf
Also, Rwanda uses a proportional representation (PR) system—party-list (IDEA). PR systems, on average, lead to much better representation of women.

kateoplis:

Rwanda has the highest percentage of parliament seats held by women in the world. Click through for more eye-opening stats. 

This is because Rwanda uses a strict quota system that reserves seats for women. See here: http://www.idea.int/publications/wip2/upload/Rwanda.pdf

Also, Rwanda uses a proportional representation (PR) system—party-list (IDEA). PR systems, on average, lead to much better representation of women.

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