Women in the Scottish Parliament

[ArabellaScott]

A bit of good news among the politics:

'Of the 129 MSPs elected to the Scottish Parliament on Thursday, 58 – or 44 per cent – are women.

The figure is a marked increase from the 45 female MSPs voted in in 2016, which was the same number as in 2011, and actually below the figure of 1999, of 37 per cent and 48 women.'

'among them, there are two women of colour: Scottish Conservatives’ West of Scotland list MSP Pam Gosal, whose parents are Indian and Kaukab Stewart of the SNP, who is of Pakistani descent and on Friday, became the first BAME woman elected to the Scottish Parliament'

www.scotsman.com/news/politics/it-has-taken-too-long-but-to-all-women-and-girls-of-colour-out-there-the-scottish-parliament-belongs-to-you-too-3230119?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB

And of course including Pam Duncan-Glancy the first permanent wheelchair user...

It's really good to see so many women, and a bit more diversity.

Yes, good to see more women being elected.

more women, less transphobes!! wins all around, tysm Scottish electorate

*fewer

I wonder how they managed to count them, given that the SNP can’t define what a woman is.

@ArabellaScott

*fewer

thank you!

@Babdoc

I wonder how they managed to count them, given that the SNP can’t define what a woman is.