According to a survey released last week, Finland topped the ranking, with more than half of its governmental roles being occupied by females.
Portugal rates 27th on the list, with just 17.9 percent of governmental roles, Ministerial or Secretarial, being filled by women. This is according to the first report from the Observatory for Integrated Gender/System of Information and Knowledge, created by the Committee for Equality and Gender.
A law on quotas states that there must be a certain percentage of women included on political lists, but the Observatory’s report concluded that “in the majority of cases women do not have the same possibilities of being elected as men or even of carrying out these roles”.
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According to a survey released last week, Finland topped the ranking, with more than half of its governmental roles being occupied by females.
Portugal rates 27th on the list, with just 17.9 percent of governmental roles, Ministerial or Secretarial, being filled by women. This is according to the first report from the Observatory for Integrated Gender/System of Information and Knowledge, created by the Committee for Equality and Gender.
A law on quotas states that there must be a certain percentage of women included on political lists, but the Observatory’s report concluded that “in the majority of cases women do not have the same possibilities of being elected as men or even of carrying out these roles”.
To read the complete news story please visit The Portugal News Online.