Women in Cambodian Politics
4 Comments Published by seserak on Tuesday, December 06, 2005 at 9:26 PM.
After a brief search on the net with the above key words, I got the following data:
- In the National Assembly, women hold only 12 out of 123 seats or 9.8%; whereas in the senate, women hold 8 out of 61 seats or 13.1% of the total .( In Thailand, women hold 53 out of 500 seats or 10.6 % in the Lower House and 21 out of 200 seats or 10.5% in the Upper House. While in Vietnam, women hold 136 out of 498 seats or 27.3% in the National Assembly) For more : Women in National Parliments
- Following the 1998 election, there were only 2 female ministers among the 25 ministries and 4 female Secretaries of State out of a total of 50. At the time this was an improvement, though there are still no female provincial governors. Previously there were only 4 women in politically appointed positions and no female ministers, secretaries of state or provincial governors. ( From NGO Forum On Cambodia: Gender in Poverty Reduction)
- Only 9% of the 169,000 civil servants are women, and only 8 of 110 judges in Cambodia and no prosecutors are women.
- Prior to the 2002 Commune Elections there was discussion of developing a quota of 30% of seats for women. However, this suggestion was rejected and only 8.5% of the councillors elected were women.
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Well, percentage wise Khmer women in politics is not far behind from the Bhudist country Siamese. But I would like to see more Cambodian women holding public office positions. In near future I would love to see Khmer woman as a prime minister. Actually, any new prime minister to replace the current corrupted dictatorship ruled of Hun Sen would be a step of change to my Cambodia. I want my Cambodia to have a prime minister that is not kowtow to Hanoi.
(I express this writing under freedom of speech--please don't throw me into Kuk Prey Sar)
Thank you.
Very informative numbers you've got here!
By the ways, I've temporarily moved my blog to www.xwanna.com/wanna/, pending the current error recovered :-(
Wanna,
I have edited the link to your temporary site.
I will replace it with your original link once you're done with the error.
Keep posting,
I don't mind men or women as long as they are good leaders, consider Cambodian people benefits as the most important thing and bring Cambodia towards peace and wealth.