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The Decline of America: The Decline of the U.S. Womens' Movement (II)


"Women are better represented in almost all developed nations and in
many developing nations as well, including Grenada, Panama, and Iraq.
The most equitable ratios are found in the Soviet Union and its former
satellites, and in the Scandinavian countries. In Pakistan, where
Benazir Bhutto became the first female prime minister of an Islamic
country, twenty seats in the parliament are reserved for women."

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    Countries with women occupying 20 percent or more of the
                 parliamentary seats, 1987-91:
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                  WOMEN                     WOMEN
COUNTRY         LAWMAKERS  COUNTRY        LAWMAKERS

Soviet Union      34.5     Mongolia         24.9
Norway            34.4     Seychelles       24.0
Romania           34.4     China            21.2
Cuba              33.9     North Korea      21.1
East Germany      32.2     Bulgaria         21.0
Finland           31.5     Hungary          21.0
Czechoslovakia    29.5     Poland           20.2
Denmark           29.1     Netherlands      20.0
Albania           28.8
Sweden            28.5     United States     5.8

Sources (for chart and text): The Worlds Women 1970-1990: Trends and
Statistics (New York United Nations, 1991), pp. 39-42. U.S.: League of
Women Voters.

From page 112 of:

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_We're Number One, Where America Stands -- and Falls -- in the New    
World Order_ by Andrew L Shapiro.   

New York, May 1992, Vintage Books, a division of Random House.   
$10 paperback. ISBN 0-679-73893-2  
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    "America is becoming a land of private greed and public squalor.   
    This book is an indispensable road map through the wreckage. The   
    facts it reveals will startle you. They may depress you. But   
    ideally they'll fire you up to help rebuild this nation."   

                        -Robert B. Reich, author of The Work of Nations