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Footnotes

  1. See IPU’s table on "Women’s Access to the Rights to Vote and Be Elected: World Chronology", IPU, 1997, in Chapter 6.

  2. 13.8 per cent (in lower houses of parliaments) and 8.5 per cent (in upper houses) or both houses combined 10.9 per cent.

  3. Dahlerup, Drude. 1991. “From a Small to a Large Minority: A Theory of a Critical Mass Applied to the Case of Women in Scandinavian Politics”. In Hem Lata Swarup and Sarojini Bisaria. eds. Women, Politics and Religion. Etawah, India: A.C.Brothers. pp. 267-303; Janet C. Beilstein. 1996. "Women in Decision-Making: Progress towards a Critical Mass". Paper for SADC regional Parliamentary Seminar in cooperation with UNDP. Cape Town, South Africa. September. pp. 1-4.

  4. This is also discussed in Matland, Chapter 3.

  5. Editors Addition.

  6. Editor’s Addition.

  7. Transparency International. April 1997. "The Fight Against Corruption: is the Tide Now Turning?", Transparency International Report. Berlin: TI.

  8. Shvedova, N. 1994. "A Woman’s Place: How the Media Works Against Women in Russia", in Surviving Together, Vol. 12, No. 2.



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