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Demographic indicators of women in Egypt |
| Population in Egypt is estimated to have reached around 92, 000, 000 in January 2013 (CAPMAS); growing at the rate of 1.91 per cent. Females represented 48.83 per cent (34, 839, 000). |
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Women in the Executive Authority |
| Women in Egypt have assumed the post of cabinet ministers as far back as the early 1960s. The first woman cabinet minister was Ms. Hikmat Abu-Zeid, who took up the social affairs portfolio in September 1962. |
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Women in Politics |
| For a very long time, women in Egypt have been denied their political rights. With the promulgation, however, of the 1956 Constitution, they were allowed full suffrage. |
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