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Vietnam second in ASEAN for percentage of women in parliament

Women account for 24.4 percent of the total deputies in the Vietnamese National Assembly (NA), ranking only after Laos in the Association of Southeast Asia Nations ( ASE AN), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) reports.
Women account for 24.4 percent of the total deputies in the VietnameseNational Assembly (NA), ranking only after Laos in the Associationof Southeast Asia Nations ( ASE AN), the United Nations DevelopmentProgramme (UNDP) reports.

According to the UNDP’s latest HumanDevelopment Report themed “The rise of the South: Human Progress in aDiverse World”, the top 10 countries with highest percentage of women inparliament include Rwanda (51.9 percent), Andorra, Cuba, Sweden, theSeychelles, Senegal, South Africa, Nicaragua and Iceland.

Interms of the gender inequality index, Vietnam is ranked at 48thglobally, while Singapore is at the 13 th position and Malaysiaat 48th.-VNA
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