Emirati women .. a pioneering march in political empowerment

The UAE provided a unique experience in the political empowerment of women, which came as a fruit of its firm belief in its efficiency and its ability to achieve the positive and qualitative impact in the various sectors of work, and the active contribution to the sustainable development process witnessed by the state. The decision to raise the percentage of women’s representation in the Federal National Council to 50% in 2019, the approach of the wise leadership in promoting political empowerment of women, putting the UAE in the first place in the Arab world and regionally in terms of women’s membership in Parliament, and the fourth in the world, according to the International Parliamentary Union. The march of the Emirati women began in the Federal National Council in 2006, when she participated as a vice and a member of the first