‘Women inclusion in national Parliaments surge’

UNITED Nations Women deputy country director Caroline Nyamayemombe has said there has been reasonable increase in women’s inclusion in national parliaments across the world over the last two decades.

The percentage of women in the legislatures increased from 13,2% in 2000 to 23,4% last year.

Addressing the Zimbabwe Gender Commission’s 2018 National Gender Forum held in Bulawayo yesterday, Nyamayemombe said the “Inter-parliamentary women data shows that the global average of women in national parliaments increased from 13,2% in 2000 to 23,4% in 2017 … So it demonstrates that, OK there is progress.

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