In 2013, Rwanda had the highest proportion of female members of parliament in the world with 64 percent of the seats taken by women in its lower house, known as the Chamber of Deputies. In Rwanda’s upper house of parliament, the Senate, 10 out of 26 seats must be filled by women, according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union, an international organization of parliaments.
Rwanda’s devastating 1994 genocide resulted in a disproportionate loss of males. Rwandan society in the aftermath
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