Women in Armenia

Women in Armenia
	An Armenian woman from New Julfa in national costume. From The Costumes of Armenian Women by Gregory Lima (Tehran, 1974)
General Statistics
Maternal mortality (per 100,000)	26 (2017)
Women in parliament	35.51% (2023)
Women over 25 with secondary education	94.1% (2010)
Women in labour force	69% (2022)
Gender Inequality Index
Value	0.216 (2021)
Rank	53rd out of 191
Global Gender Gap Index
Value	0.698 (2022)
Rank	89th out of 146

Women in Armenia have had equal rights, including the right to vote, since the establishment of the First Republic of Armenia. On June 21 and 23, 1919, the first direct parliamentary elections were held in Armenia under universal suffrage - every person over the age of 20 had the right to vote regardless of gender, ethnicity or religious beliefs. The 80-seat legislature, charged with setting the foundation for an Armenian state, contained three women deputies: Katarine Zalyan-Manukyan, Perchuhi Partizpanyan-Barseghyan and Varvara Sahakyan.^[6]^[7]

The constitution of the current Republic of Armenia was adopted in 1991 and officially guarantees gender equality.^[8] This has enabled women to actively participate in all spheres of Armenian life. Armenian women have attained prominence in entertainment, politics and other fields.^[1]

^ ^a ^b "Armenia". World Bank Gender Data Portal. Retrieved 2023-02-07.
^ "Data on women in national parliament". Parline: the IPU’s Open Data Platform. Retrieved 2023-02-07.
^ "Labor force participation rate, female (% of female population ages 15-64) (modeled ILO estimate) | Data". data.worldbank.org. Retrieved 2017-03-03.
^ "Human Development Report 2021/2022" (PDF). HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORTS. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
^ "Global Gender Gap Report 2022" (PDF). World Economic Forum. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
^ Badalyan, Lena (5 December 2018). "Women's Suffrage: The Armenian Formula". Chai Khana. Retrieved 30 November 2018.
^ Harutyunyan, Anahit (8 March 2018). Առաջին խորհրդարանի (1919-1920) երեք կին պատգամավորները. ANI Armenian Research Center (in Armenian). Yerevan, Armenia: Armenian Research Center for Anteriology. Archived from the original on 4 May 2018. Retrieved 11 January 2019. Three female deputies of the first parliament (1919-1920)
^ "Constitution of the Republic of Armenia - Library - The President of the Republic of Armenia". www.president.am. Retrieved 2020-06-01.

[Armenia-1] "Armenia". World Bank Gender Data Portal. Retrieved 2023-02-07.

[data.ipu.org-2] "Data on women in national parliament". Parline: the IPU’s Open Data Platform. Retrieved 2023-02-07.

[worldbank-3] "Labor force participation rate, female (% of female population ages 15-64) (modeled ILO estimate) | Data". data.worldbank.org. Retrieved 2017-03-03.

[4] "Human Development Report 2021/2022" (PDF). HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORTS. Retrieved 9 December 2022.

[5] "Global Gender Gap Report 2022" (PDF). World Economic Forum. Retrieved 7 February 2023.

[:3-6] Badalyan, Lena (5 December 2018). "Women's Suffrage: The Armenian Formula". Chai Khana. Retrieved 30 November 2018.

[Harutyunyan-7] Harutyunyan, Anahit (8 March 2018). Առաջին խորհրդարանի (1919-1920) երեք կին պատգամավորները. ANI Armenian Research Center (in Armenian). Yerevan, Armenia: Armenian Research Center for Anteriology. Archived from the original on 4 May 2018. Retrieved 11 January 2019. Three female deputies of the first parliament (1919-1920)

[8] "Constitution of the Republic of Armenia - Library - The President of the Republic of Armenia". www.president.am. Retrieved 2020-06-01.

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General Statistics
An Armenian woman from New Julfa in national costume. From The Costumes of Armenian Women by Gregory Lima (Tehran, 1974)
Maternal mortality (per 100,000)	26 (2017) ^[1]
Women in parliament	35.51% (2023) ^[2]
Women over 25 with secondary education	94.1% (2010)
Women in labour force	69% (2022)^[3]
Gender Inequality Index^[4]
Value	0.216 (2021)
Rank	53rd out of 191
Global Gender Gap Index^[5]
Value	0.698 (2022)
Rank	89th out of 146