Cuba, a communist country has been showing great progress in the fields of development and human rights. Some statistics that show this rise are as follows:
As a result of Government strategies, the proportion of women in the National Assembly of the People’s Power (Cuban Parliament) has risen to 45 per cent. Cuba ranks third in the world in the proportion of women parliamentarians, as noted in the January 2012 report of the Interparliamentary Union (IPU). In 2011, women held 42.4 per cent of management posts and represented 65.6 per cent of the country’s technical and professional workforce. They make up 47.3 per cent of the overall workforce.

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