In 2005 the Kyrgyz parliament was all men, but after a number of campaigns, a
gender quota was adopted requiring women to make up one third of party candidate lists. becoming the country's youngest female member of parliament. As a member of parliament, she has made
domestic violence and
child marriage key issues. In 2017, she spoke on women's issues at a parliamentary session and all her male colleagues walked out. She said, "We were discussing assignments, grants, roads, and all men were sitting in the hall then the parliamentary hour (on gender issues) started ... and all men in the hall just stood up and went." After criticising the government as a journalist, Kasymalieva said people expected her to be an "opposing politician", but she has chosen to be a "centrist" Two deputy ministers also resigned after Kasymalieva filed requests for information about the ministry leadership's foreign travel. In February 2019, Kasymalieva was one of the speakers at the International Conference on Universal Child Grants in
Geneva. She is chair of the oversight and monitoring group ensuring execution of the National Action Plan on
Open Government and a member of the Committee on Social Affairs, Education, Science, Culture and Health. In 2022, Kasymalieva became the new Ambassador of Kyrgyzstan to the United Nations after presenting her credentials to UN Secretary-General António Guterres on 15 February. ==Personal life==