Alshamary, Marsin2023-01-202023-01-202023-01http://hdl.handle.net/10625/61754In the October 2021 parliamentary elections, Iraqi women broke their record for the most seats ever won by female candidates in Iraq’s post-2003 history, reaching 95 seats in a 329-seat legislature. Even more notable is that 57 of these women won their seat without the need for Iraq’s 25% women’s quota to kick in. On the surface, these are respectable gains for a country that has undergone regime change only two decades ago, but deeper analysis reveals that this is a quantitative – but not necessarily qualitative – success.application/pdfenWOMEN IN POLITICSWOMEN'S POLITICAL PARTICIPATIONWOMEN'S RIGHTSIRAQMIDDLE EASTPolicy Brief