--<a href="http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/women_senators.htm">http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/women_senators.htm</a>
To date, thirty-three women have served in the United States Senate, with fourteen serving at this time.

--<a href="http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761567211/House_of_Representatives_United_States.html">http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761567211/House_of_Representatives_United_States.html</a>
Women have also found it difficult to win election to the House, holding fewer than 4 percent of the seats from the early 20th century through the 1980s. However, women have recently broken new ground; in the 107th Congress (2001-2003), 61 women served in the House, giving them 14 percent of the chamber.

--<a href="http://clerk.house.gov/members/memFAQ.html#women">http://clerk.house.gov/members/memFAQ.html#women</a>
There are currently 62 women serving in the U.S. House of Representatives and 13 in the U.S. Senate. (March 19, 2004)

--<a href="http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/mnt/html/women/iwd/iwd4.html">http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/mnt/html/women/iwd/iwd4.html</a>
Of 198 full members of the party's Central Committee, only five are women, comparing unfavourably with the previous Central Committee, where seven out of 193 seats were held by female party members.  (Women's Day 2004 page)

--<a href="http://www.appf.org.pe/members/005about.htm">http://www.appf.org.pe/members/005about.htm</a>
NPC Percentage of women: 21 % (late 90's)

--<a href="http://www.chinatoday.com.cn/English/e20033/woman.htm">http://www.chinatoday.com.cn/English/e20033/woman.htm</a>
By the end of 2000 China had 14.895 million women cadres, accounting for 36.2 percent of the country's total, and the number above county level amounted to 77,300, accounting for 15.1 percent of the total. Of China's 31 provincial-level governments, 30 had at least one woman cadre, and 15 had at least two. The number of women deputies to the National People's Congress has increased year by year, and is expected to reach 25 percent in 2003.

--<a href="http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/chinagate/doc/2004-03/08/content_312778.htm">http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/chinagate/doc/2004-03/08/content_312778.htm</a>
In Beijing, women deputies account for 30.8 per cent of the municipal people's congress.