Number of women deputies grows in Azerbaijan

  07 March 2015    Read: 2968
Number of women deputies grows in Azerbaijan
The share of women deputies in Milli Majlis makes 15.6% today, according to the State Statistical Committee.
AzVision.az reports that in line with the information, women made 4.3% of the total number of deputies in 1990 and 10.7% in 2000.

The number of women working at municipalities is also growing.

Thus, the number of women elected to municipalities during the recent elections has grown 6 times reaching 5,236 people which makes 35% of the total number of municipality members. This indicator made 4% at the previous elections.

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