Sahiba Gafarova Named First Woman Speaker of the House in the history of the Azerbaijan National Assembly
By RepresentWomen by on February 12, 2021
By Lexi Long
In a March 2020 vote, representatives of the National Assembly elected Sahiba Gafarova to be Azerbaijan’s first woman Speaker of the Assembly. While Azerbaijan was the first Muslim-majority state to grant women the right to vote and stand for election in 1918, the government has struggled to empower women to successfully run and win seats at both the federal and local levels.
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