The IPU has a membership of 180 countries. The delegation includes five Rajya Sabha members who are S Niranjan Reddy, Kartikeya Sharma, Ashok Mittal, Prashanta Nanda, Sumitra Balmik, along with Rajya Sabha Secretary-General P C Mody.
Although progress has been steady over the past few years, it is still excruciatingly slow and at the current rate, it will take another 50 years before gender parity is achieved in parliaments worldwide, the report states, adding that as at 1 January 2021, women accounted for 50 per cent or more of members in just three parliaments, include Rwanda, Cuba and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
