46. 2019 年，约 80 个国家制定了性别配额立法(见 E/CN.6/2020/3)；拉丁美洲和加勒比地区长期实行配额制，议会中妇女比例达到 31.6%，为世界最高。25 提交报告的会员国引入并增加了配额，增加妇女的政治和经济代表。一些国家计划将议会中妇女代表的配额保持或增加到 30%(亚美尼亚、萨尔瓦多)，其他国家的目标是40%(希腊、葡萄牙)、性别均等(墨西哥、秘鲁)或扩大国家行政部门的配额范围(奥地利、伊朗伊斯兰共和国、爱尔兰、墨西哥、葡萄牙)，或扩大到地方一级(萨尔瓦多、吉尔吉斯斯坦、马来西亚、葡萄牙)，并将其适用于其他被排斥的群体。
46. In 2019, some 80 countries had legislated gender quotas in place (see E/CN.6/2020/3). The Latin American and Caribbean region, which has a long-standing practice of applying quotas, reached 31.6 per cent of women in parliament, the highest percentage in the world.25 Reporting Member States have introduced and increased quotas to bolster women’s political and economic representation. Some countries plan to maintain or increase quotas for women’s parliamentary representation to 30 per cent (Armenia and El Salvador), while others aim for 40 per cent (Greece and Portugal), gender parity (Mexico and Peru) or to broaden the scope of quotas in the State administration (Austria, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Ireland, Mexico and Portugal) or to the local level (El Salvador, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia and Portugal) and to apply them to other excluded groups.