Research states that women are much less vulnerable to creating corruption in democracies and that increasing the number of women qualified to have equal or close to equal female-to-male ratios will reduce corruption. This can obviously only be done if both genders participate in a system that applies anti-corruption law to support democracy. Without these laws, gender equality is unlikely to have a significant impact on the level of corruption. “The Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption” (GOPAC) concluded that to reduce corruption, countries should achieve greater female participation in politics along with adopting measures to increase institutional and political transparency, strengthen parliamentary control and to impose severe sanctions for corruption” (“Position