1.   Baca went a step further and ordered more hiring of women deputies.

2.   But his prospects declined after he was shown on nationwide television this summer roughing up a woman parliamentary deputy during an unruly debate.

3.   But in September Zhirinovsky took outrage too far when he shoved and pulled the hair of a woman parliamentary deputy on the floor of the Duma.

4.   Some women deputies argued that too many women had died from the practice.

5.   The Virtue Party was banned after it sent a women deputy to parliament wearing an Islamic-style headscarf.

6.   Yeltsin met with women parliament deputies on Wednesday and assured them that the Chechen war would end by May, deputy Alevtina Aparina told ITAR-Tass.

7.   One woman deputy observing the fight was reduced to tears.

8.   In France, an equality advisory group recommended a change in the constitution to increase the number of women parliamentary deputies -- currently six percent.

9.   The only woman deputy, Tujan al-Faysal, an independent, has urged deputies to delay discussion of the government bill aimed at normalisation with Israel.

10.   Women deputies had earlier called for the bill to be passed without discussion.