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Women in parliament take the podium

This content was published on Jul 16, 2010 Women in parliaments worldwide are still hindered by prejudices about persistent role models, said Erika Forster-Vannini, who currently chairs the Swiss Senate. On average women make up less than 20 per cent of parliamentarians worldwide, according to Theo-Ben Gurirab, president of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). Pascale Bruderer, speaker of Switzerland’s House of Representatives, said the…