evidence: Women held a little more than one in five legislative seats worldwide in 2017, double their share in 1995. In developed countries, women had closer to one in three seats. Only two countries had majority-female legislatures in 2017: Rwanda and Bolivia. [...] The share of women participating in the workforce globally has fallen over the past few decades, from a little over 51 percent in 1995 to less than 49 percent in 2015. But an even larger drop in male labor-force participation over that same period means the gap has narrowed somewhat. Besides wealthier Scandinavian countries, those closest to parity were almost all in Sub-Saharan Africa.