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Women make up 50% of UAE’s Parliament — the Federal National Council
Nine ministers or 30% of UAE’s Cabinet are women
Since 2021, UAE has a quota for women directors — at least one woman on the Boards of all publicly-listed companies
The UAE ranked first in the Gulf region on gender equality in the World Economic Forum’s 2020 Global Gender Gap index
The UAE had the highest number of women — 23 — on Forbes’ 2020 “100 Most Powerful Arab Businesswomen”
The Emirates Mars Space Mission, the first by an Arab nation and only the fifth space agency to probe Mars, was launched by a science team that’s 80% female and led by a woman, Minister of State Sarah al Amiri
