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More women than ever before are being elected to parliaments around the world, shows the research conducted by Inter-Parliamentary Union,an international organization of parliamentarians, which works closely with the United Nations.

“We actually saw a 1.5 percentage increase globally in Parliaments as a result of elections that took place in 2013. That doesn't sound like a lot, but if you consider that we are now at almost 22 per cent of women in parliaments, if we were to continue with this rate of increase of 1.5 it means that within a generation, actually within 20 years, we should be able to reach globally gender parity in Parliament,” IPU Secretary-General Anders B. Johnsson said.

Rwanda tops the list of 189 states with its Chamber of Duties recording more than 60 percent women, followed by Andorra and Cuba.

Armenia is ranked  115th in the list with 14 female lawmakers out of 131.

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