Women return to Kuwait’s parliament for the first time since 2020Dr. Jenan Bushehri and Alia Al Khaled have been elected to Kuwait’s parliament, becoming the first women MPs in two years.Although Kuwaiti women earned the right to vote in 2005 and have been active both in Cabinet and parliament, there has never been more than four women MPs in office at the same time.In 2017, she became Minister for Service Affairs and Minister for Housing, and was made Minister for Housing and Minister for Public Works a year later after a Cabinet reshuffle.Al Khaled is a writer and member of the Kuwaiti Journalists’ Association since 2013, as well as a political activist.According to the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index 2021, Kuwait is ranked among the last 4 out of 155 countries for political empowerment."