Women in parliaments

Written by Giulio Sabbati, Martina Prpic with Samy Chahri,

Updated on 25.02.2020

This ‘Women in parliaments‘ infographic provides information on the proportion of women in national parliaments, compares representation of women in national parliaments with their numbers in the European Parliament and shows the number of women in the EP by political group. It also gives an overview of female representatives in the EP by Member State and outlines the gender quotas applicable to the 2019 EP elections.

This is a further updated version of an infographic of which the previous edition was published in December 2019, PE 646.110.

Read the complete ‘at a glance’ note on ‘Women in parliaments‘ on the Think Tank pages of the European Parliament.

Read more on the Parliaments’ fight for gender Equality in the EU.

Women in EP by political group

Women in EP and national parliaments

Female representatives in the EP by Member State

Women in national parliaments compared with the European Parliament

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