Rwanda
In October 2018, Rwanda became the second African nation to include more women in lean 26-seat cabinet. Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame unveiled a new gender-balanced cabinet with 13 women ministers out of the 26. He said at the time: “A higher number of women in decision-making roles have led to a decrease in gender discrimination and gender-based crimes.”
Rwanda’s parliament has also improved its ratio of women legislators which is the highest in the world. The East African country recently elected 58 women legislators out of the 80 members of parliament. This is an improvement on the previous parliament’s 49 women representatives.
