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Awesome!!!!! USA tied for 70th place with Turkmenistan in terms of women's equality in governmental representation!

http://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/classif.htm

so spambot that i am--let's quote wiki!---let's review---the USA signed in 1980 but failed to ratify the CEDAW--making it an outstanding beacon of medieval attitudes towards women . . . and international human rights abuse of many varieties

along with noted misogynist patriarchs at the Vatican (Holy See) and the mysterious governments of Iran, Somalia, and Sudan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_parties_to_the_Convention_on_the_Elimination_of_All_Forms_of_Discrimination_Against_Women

It seems USA may be Holy Roman Empire after all . . .

and more third world than you think!!!!

hope you don't mind the cultural arrogance of those First-worlders . . .

List of parties to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

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Participation in the CEDAW

Signed and ratified Acceded or succeeded Unrecognized state, abiding by treaty

Only signed Non-signatory

The list of parties to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women encompasses the states who have signed and ratified or acceded to the international agreement to prevent discrimination against women.

On December 18, 1979, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women was opened for signature. Sweden became the first state to deposit the treaty on July 2, 1980. The treaty came into force and closed for signature on September 3, 1981 with the ratification of 20 states. Since then, states that did not sign the treaty can now only accede to it. The instrument of ratification, accession, or succession is deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations

As of May 2009, 186 states have ratified or acceded to the treaty, most recently Qatar on April 29, 2009.^[1] In addition, the United States is the only state to have signed but not ratified the treaty. The Republic of China (Taiwan) has also ratified the treaty in its legislature, but is unrecognized by the United Nations and is a party to the treaty only unofficially.

States that have signed but not ratified the treaty

State	Signed
United States	July 17, 1980

Non-signatory states

State
Holy See
Iran
Nauru
Palau
Somalia
Sudan
Tonga