{"id":3658,"date":"2024-11-03T03:37:04","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T03:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/?p=3658"},"modified":"2024-11-03T03:49:26","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T03:49:26","slug":"plac-publication-nigeria-ranks-very-low-on-the-number-of-women-in-african-parliaments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/plac-publication-nigeria-ranks-very-low-on-the-number-of-women-in-african-parliaments\/","title":{"rendered":"PLAC Publication: Nigeria Ranks very Low on the Number of Women in African Parliaments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This factsheet shows the ranking of countries by the percentage of women in unicameral or lower chambers of parliaments, and the percentage of women in the upper chambers of parliaments in Sub-Saharan Africa. According to data from the Inter Parliamentary Union, Nigeria ranks 179 out of 184, with only 3.9% of women in the House of Representatives and 3.7% of women in the Nigerian Senate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most African countries that have achieved a high level of women\u2019s\nrepresentation have done so through the use of special measures such as quotas.\nAbout 41 out of 54 African countries adopt constitutional, legislated or\nvoluntary party quotas to elect women to parliaments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See factsheet here: <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yzdznd36\">tinyurl.com\/yzdznd36<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This factsheet shows the ranking of countries by the percentage of women in unicameral or lower chambers of parliaments, and the percentage of women in the upper chambers of parliaments in Sub-Saharan Africa. According to data from the Inter Parliamentary Union, Nigeria ranks 179 out of 184, with only 3.9% of women in the House [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3662,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3658\/revisions\/3662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}