In Rada few women MPs

To date, a great half the average is 19,2% of the seats in parliaments around the world. However, in Ukraine of the 450 deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of only 36 women (8%) wrote "The Mirror of the week. Ukraine. "The best things in Sweden, where 45% of women parliamentarians, in Europe as a whole - 21.4% in Arab countries 11.7%." If anyone of you have hoped to highlight in their media moment when women in government will be as much as men, I have to disappoint you: none of you will be able to do so. At current rates, and the number of women in parliaments is growing only half a percent a year, we celebrate this joyous occasion only in 2070, "- said the Secretary General of the IPU, Anders Johnson at a press conference in Geneva on Friday, March 4. Today date, 43 States have achieved the recommended UN quota of women's representation in legislative bodies, is 30%. However, the idea of ??gender equality is still winning all over the world. So, in 2008, government authorities in different countries work on average 17% of women, compared with 8 % in 1998. In Ukraine, the same trend - the reverse. The government of Mykola Azarov, formed a year ago, no woman minister and zamestitelnits minister in June 2010 was 12 out of 168. And this is despite the fact that Ukraine is on the third place in the world by the ratio of female to male population. So, at the end of 2010 in Ukraine to 100 men women 116.9 (more than in Latvia and Estonia). All in all, the world's male population, although only slightly, but higher than female - 100 females there were 100.8 males. Ministry of Industry