Women play an important role in the development of a nation. This is a good start for the politics of UAE, atleast symbolically.

A woman was elected to an advisory council in the United Arab Emirates in the first national polls in the Gulf country, in which only a tiny part of the population is taking part.Three-stage elections to fill half the 40 seats of the Federal National Council (FNC) began in Abu Dhabi and the smaller emirate of Fujairah Saturday, making the UAE the last Gulf Arab monarchy to hold a national poll.

Oil-rich UAE has 825,000 citizens, more than 300,000 over the age of 18. But only 6,595 of them — chosen by each emirate’s ruler — were entitled to vote across the country, including 1,163 women. The UAE, which has two women in the cabinet, has become the first country in the conservative Muslim Gulf region where a woman wins a mandate right from the first national vote.