Countries with high levels of gender equality will have more women in politics than those countries with lower levels due to the fact that where women are viewed as equals, they would naturally receive equal representation in government. If a country has high levels of employment for women, it will be more likely to have higher percentages of women in parliament. Similarly, countries with high percentages of educated women will have higher percentages of women with seats in parliaments than those countries with less educated women, because the majority of people who hold parliamentary positions have high levels of education. High GDP/CAP percentages in a country will yield high percentages of women in parliamentary positions because richer countries tend to be more educated and politically advanced overall, both of these being factors in percentages of women in parliamentary positions. First World countries are more likely to have higher percentages of women in parliamentary positions than both Second and Third World countries due to the characteristics of Second and Third World countries, Third World countries especially. The Third World had become the backyard of the First World, home to peoples invariably affected by the conditions of suffering, poverty, inequality, violence, and social, political, and economic marginalization. The Second World was the Communist world led by the USSR. With the demise of the USSR and the communist block, there is no longer a Second World (Herrick 1997). .
Countries with established multi-party democracies are the most likely form of government to yield high percentages of women in parliamentary positions, followed by recently established multi-party democracies, one-party regimes, military/monarchial/theocratic regimes, and disordered states or states in the midst of civil wars. Finally, countries with high freedom levels, basically democracy levels, are more likely to have higher percentages of women in parliamentary positions than countries with low freedom levels.