Quota women on the rise: the 2002 election. The key factor in explaining the dramatic rise in the number of women in Majliss-annouwab from 0.6% in 1997 to 10.7% in 2002, as shown in Table 2, was the adoption of electoral gender quotas.As a result, Morocco improved its position from the 118th in terms of female representation in parliament to the 69th worldwide (Inter-Parliamentary Union, 2005).