Women in Scottish Parliament

["Michael Hoover" <hoov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

forwarded by Michael Hoover

>    50:50 campaign for equal gender representation in the Scottish
>    Parliament
>
>               Scottish Parliament Election Results, May 6th 1999
>
>    Engender: a research and campaigning organisation for women in
>    Scotland   Introduction
>
>    The turnout was lower than expected.
>
>    There are 48 female MSPs in total (of 129) which represents 37.2%
>
>    There are 30 female Constituency MSPs (of 73), 41.1%
>
>    There are 18 female Regional MSPs (of 56), 32.1%
>
>    Approximately 30% of the candidates were female.
>
>    According to the World League Table drawn up by the
>    Inter-Parliamentary Union, Scotland is now catapulted up the table
>    from the 26th place of the United Kingdom right up to 3rd place - only
>    bettered by Sweden at 42.7% (see The Swedish Parliament: Women in the
>    Riksdag) and Denmark at 37.4%