Shout out to Lauren for a great post on gender in the ongoing U.S. Senate races. It made me think about a website (hosted by the Inter-Parliamentary Union) that I came across a few years ago in the course of research. It compares most of the governments in the world, providing the percentage of women in each country's legislative body (usually an upper house like the Senate and a lower house like the House of Representatives). It's a little disheartening to see that the U.S. is relatively low on the list, but that is due in large part to the fact that many countries have quotas of women for any given ballot.
link here: http://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/classif.htm
***I'm not sure if this link is under maintenance right now. If it doesn't work, here is the link for regional comparisons: http://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/world.htm
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