Serbian parliament has raised number of women, speaker says
N1 Info 10.12.2018 | Beta
Women in Serbia have won the right to head the government, national bank, hold seats on the Constitutional Court and other important posts, Parliament Speaker Maja Gojkovic said on Monday.
“The Serbian parliament has 94 women MPs and many of them head committees and delegations. When I started out in politics in the Yugoslav Federal Parliament I was one of just a few women,” she told a conference on developing gender equality through regional cooperation on International Human Rights Day. She said the in the year 2000, parliament had 12.4 percent of women MPs and 21.2 percent in 2007, adding that their numbers increased thanks to