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Which has more Women? Pakistan National Assembly or US Congress?

Written by moinansari on Mar-18-08 11:31pm

Pakistan’s National Assembly is 21% female. Elects woman as Speaker of HouseThe oath-taking by 329 newly-elected law-makers marked the beginning of a five-year term of the 342-seat lower house. The National Assembly chose Fahmida Mirza, as Speaker of the House, who is a businesswoman and lawmaker from Sindh province.

The last outgoing National Assmbly had a slightly lowere number of womein. It had one less woman. 21% of Pakistani National Assembly is femal. A record 72 female lawmakers took oath as National Assembly members on Monday. This flows down to the provincial Assemblies and then to the District Council Level which has about 33% women councilors.

NA At Large: 16
Punjab: PPP 12 PML-N 16 PML-Q 7.
Sindh: PPP 7 MQM 5 PML-Q: 1 PML-F 1.
NWFP: PPP 3 ANP 3 PML-N 1
Balochistan, PPP 1 PML-Q 1 MMA 1

The US Congress is 8% female.