CEDAW/C/1997/3/Add.3
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Table 33.
Participation of women in political life
Local communities
Legislative power
Municipalities or equivalent
Upper and lower chambers
Executive power
Proportion
of seats
occupied by
women
Proportion of
seats at the
ministerial level
occupied by women
Women members
of council
Women mayors
Seats
occupied by
women
World
...
...
...
10
6
Industrialized
countries
...
...
...
12
8
Developing
countries
...
...
...
10
5
Arab countries
...
...
...
4
1
Eastern Asia
...
...
...
19
6
10
4
...
10
8
Southern Asia
...
...
...
5
3
South-East Asia
and Pacific
...
...
...
6
Sub-Saharan
Africa
...
...
...
6
Least developed
countries
...
...
...
6
5
European Union
16
6
...
14
16
Nordic countries
28
17
...
36
31
OECD
16
6
...
13
15
Latin America/
Caribbean
/...
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