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Women in national parliaments situation as of 1st february 2019 the data in the table below has been compiled by the inter parliamentary union on the basis of information provided by national parliaments by 1st february 2019 193 countries are classified by descending order of the percentage of women in the lower or single house. At this moment there are 21 women serving in the senate and 84 women serving in the house of representatives which amounts to just under 20 of congress that is leagues behind rwandas parliament which is 61 female as well as the uks which is 30 female. The world average today is 238 percent of women in parliaments worldwide says kareen jabre director of the division of programs at the switzerland based inter parliamentary union or ipu an. Women who believe a husband is justified in beating his wife when she refuses sex with him proportion of time spent on unpaid domestic and care work female of 24 hour day women making their own informed decisions regarding sexual relations contraceptive use and reproductive health care of women age 15 49