Studies show that the Pacific Islands region is among the worst performing in the world for women’s representation in parliaments. An official stated that The Pacific Island Forum Secretariat is to publish a book next month that analyses the barriers preventing women from participating in politics.
The Forum Secretariat’s gender adviser, Samantha Hung says, ‘We’re the worst performing region in the world alongside the Arab states. On the average, if you exclude French territories, is 4.1 per cent. The global average, at the moment, is 16.3 percent, I think but we’re talking about a target of 30 percent that was set a very long time ago so we’re very far behind both the global average and the global target’.
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Pacific Islands ranked low for women's political representation
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