The tiny Himalayan country Nepal is leading in women's political representation in the legislature with women occupying 30 per cent seats in the Constituent Assembly of the country in 2015, according to the data compiled by the Asian Development Bank. The Philippines stood at the second place in Asia with 27 per cent women representation in the House of Representatives of the country. Although, in 2014, 23.4 per cent of parliament seats in China were held by women highlighting a slight improvement. India has only 12 per cent representation of women in the Parliament while global average for women in Parliament stands at 22.4 per cent pushing India’s rank lower than Indonesia and Mongolia which has 17 per cent women representation and 15 per cent respectively. India, Malaysia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Thailand have the lowest female political representation.

Source: The Nation Bangkok November 26, 2016 02:03 UTC