“CHILE, which has South America’s most successful
economy, elected its first female president this year. But
the lot of Chilean women is by many measures worse than
that of their sisters elsewhere in the region. A smaller
[5] proportion of them work and fewer achieve political power.
According to a recent report by the Inter-Parliamentary
Union, an association of parliaments, 15% of
representatives in the lower house of Chile’s Congress are
women, less than half the proportion in Costa Rica and
[10] Argentina and below the level in eight other countries in
the region, including Venezuela and Bolivia. Chilean
women hope that Michelle Bachelet’s presidency will
improve their position but there are worries that she will do
more harm than good.”
The Economist August 12th 2006
According to the text, Chilean women
