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Updating The Numbers

It's been busy, busy, busy since the start of the school year. As they say, "no rest for weary," or is that "no rest for the wicked." I definitely fit the first category, and maybe the second depending who you talk to.

Recently, among other things, I've been at work updating and rewriting the chapter on representation for the 3rd edition of Women, Politics, and Public Policy. This has involved updating a couple of the charts.

So today, I'm sharing some of those updated tables and graphs. If a picture is supposed to be worth a thousand words, I will stop writing now...

Women in Canadian Provincial and Territorial Governments

January 2018
Women/Seats
% of Women
British Columbia
33/ 87
37.0
Alberta
27/ 87
31.0
Saskatchewan
16/ 61
26.2
Manitoba
14/ 57
24.6
Ontario
36/ 104 (3 vacant)
34.6
Quebec
34/ 125
27.2
New Brunswick
8/ 48 (1 vacant)
16.6
Nova Scotia
17/ 51
33.3
Prince Edward Island
5/ 27
18.5
Newfoundland and Labrador
10/ 40
25.0
Nunavut
6/ 22
27.2
Northwest Territories
2/ 19
10.5
Yukon
7/ 19
36.8



Total
215/ 747 (4 vacant)
28.8

Information compiled by Jacquetta Newman from the provincial legislative assembly websites, accessed January 16 and 17, 2018.

Percentage of Women in Selected National Parliaments (Single or Lower Houses)

 
Check out Mexico!! which is now in the top 10 ranked counties for women's representation going from 14.2% in 1995 to 42.6% in 2017.

Data compiled by Jacquetta Newman from archives of the International Parliamentary Union, http://archive.ipu.org/wmn-e/world-arc.htm & IPU. 1995. Women in Parliaments 1945-1995. Worldwide Statistical Survey. Available at archive.ipu.org/pdf/publications/women 45-95-en.pdf.
More to follow as I work through the chapter and some of the other stuff I'm working on.
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