Of the 21 Undersecretary Generals, only 2 are women. In 48 countries, there are no women ministers at all. In 136 countries, women hold no ministerial positions concerned with the economy. At the current rate, women will have to wait at least 450 years before they are represented in equal numbers with men in the higher echelons of economic power. Women in Kuwait do not have the right to vote or stand for election.
Today there are close to one million elected women leaders at the village level.
A recent assessment revealed that corruption has gone down and transparency has greatly increased because of women's participation in panchayats. In Zimbabwe, gender can be used for disqualifying someone from holding public office. But women have made no significant impact in Senate commissions where they are still traditionally represented in the social and family commissions while their male counterparts are in the commissions for industry, custom revenues, mining, energy, defense, and foreign relations.