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Interesting Fact - Politics

Iraq, Rwanda and Mexico each have more female MPs than Britain.

(There are currently 146 female MPs in parliament in Britain, but given that there are 650 seats, this is only 22.5%. In Iraq the percentage is 25.2%, in Mexico 36.8% and Rwanda has the highest percentage of women MPs in the world, at 56.3%.

You can check your country here:-

http://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/classif.htm)

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