As Women Make up Only 6% of Parliament, Gender Equality Is Still a Long Way off in Iran

... of a parliamentary body with only 17 female parliamentarians, that is nearly 6% of the total number of representatives – the former parliament had the same figure. The 2019 UN Women annual report ranks Iran 180 th out of 193 countries in terms of gender equality in parliament; globally, there are only 27 states in which wo¬¬¬men account for less than 10 percent of parliamentarians . According to the 2011 UN General Assembly resolution , women's political participation is one of the main factors ...