{"id":19514,"date":"2021-09-03T15:52:59","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T13:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=19514"},"modified":"2021-09-03T15:52:59","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T13:52:59","slug":"which-countries-have-the-largest-share-of-women-in-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/which-countries-have-the-largest-share-of-women-in-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Which countries have the largest share of women in government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twelve out of fifteen ministers from the new government cabinet, revealed on Thursday by Prime Minister Edi Rama, were women.<\/p>\n<p>In a report published several months ago by the Visual Capitalist, based on data from UN Women and The Inter-Parliamentary Unio, Albania ranked among the ten countries with the highest share of women in government posts (53.3%). But the new cabinet, 80% of which is composed of women, will most likely change Albania\u2019s rank in the report.<\/p>\n<p>In the Rama 2 government, which underwent several reshuffles, from a total of 16 ministers, 9 were women.<\/p>\n<p>But which countries have the highest number of women in their governments?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visualcapitalist.com\/mapped-where-women-hold-the-most-and-least-political-power\/\">Visual Capitalist<\/a> reveals that only 14 out of 195 states analyzed have at least 50% of women in their respective ministerial cabinets.<\/p>\n<p>Spain \u2013 66.7%<\/p>\n<p>Finland &#8211; 61.1%<\/p>\n<p>Nicaragua &#8211; 58.8%<\/p>\n<p>Columbia \u2013 57.9%<\/p>\n<p>Austria \u2013 57.1%<\/p>\n<p>Peru &#8211; 55%<\/p>\n<p>Sweden &#8211; 54, 9%<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda \u2013 53.6%<\/p>\n<p>Albania \u2013 53.3%<\/p>\n<p>France \u2013 52.9%<\/p>\n<p>Women have little or small weight in the governments of Western Balkan countries. For example, the government of Montenegro is only composed of 22% women, North Macedonia 21.7%, Serbia 19.1%, and Croatia 20%.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/09\/03\/5-elected-mps-that-relinquished-their-mandates\/\">5 elected MPs that relinquished their mandates<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/09\/02\/rama-3rd-term-cabinet-when-will-it-be-sworn-in\/\">Rama 3rd-term cabinet, when will it be sworn in?<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/09\/02\/who-are-the-new-ministers-in-the-governments-cabinet\/\">Who are the three new entrants in the government\u2019s cabinet?<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twelve out of fifteen ministers from the new government cabinet, revealed on Thursday by Prime Minister Edi Rama, were women. In a report published several months ago by the Visual Capitalist, based on data from UN Women and The Inter-Parliamentary Unio, Albania ranked among the ten countries with the highest share of women in government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":19515,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[150,151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Which countries have the largest share of women in government - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/which-countries-have-the-largest-share-of-women-in-government\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Which countries have the largest share of women in government - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Twelve out of fifteen ministers from the new government cabinet, revealed on Thursday by Prime Minister Edi Rama, were women. 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