CEDAW/C/1997/3/Add.3 English Page 28 Table 34. Percentage of women occuping decision-making positions in government, by sector, 1994 Cabinets: executive heads Politics a/ Economics Law and justice Social b/ Eastern Europe 3.9 0.6 5.1 0.9 10.3 Western Europe 7.8 7.7 8.0 9.7 18.7 10.9 9.7 15.4 15.1 25.1 Northern Africa 5.8 - - 16.7 1.6 Sub-Saharan Africa 2.8 4.4 4.5 6.9 12.5 Central America 7.7 6.4 9.7 14.6 14.6 South America 4.9 3.1 5.1 5.8 11.5 Caribbean 7.3 20.5 6.7 22.2 22.1 East Asia 0.6 - 1.5 - 3.9 South-East Asia 1.9 0.5 2.2 - 4.9 - - 3.9 - 9.0 Southern Asia 5.7 1.0 4.9 6.2 4.8 Western Asia 0.7 - 1.8 1.5 3.9 Oceania 8.8 18.3 2.2 - 5.0 Developed regions Others Africa Latin America/ Caribbean Asia and Pacific Central Asia a/ Politics: b/ Social: 4. Ministries (of Defence, Foreign Affairs, Interior). Ministries (Health, Education, Housing, Social Welfare). Comments on States' reports to the sixteenth session of CEDAW concerning articles 7 and 8 of the Convention 42. We felt it useful for the CEDAW experts who are studying articles 7 and 8 to analyse, as examples, the replies of the States Parties to the Convention, as giving a broad picture of the different situations throughout the world. /...