SECTORAL POLICIES / Gender equality

With a third of women in current Chamber, will next Parliament have more women?

Brussels, 26/02/2019 (Agence Europe)

With three months to go before the European elections, MEPs are considering how best to ensure gender balance in the next election. On Tuesday, 26 February, the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality met and, with the Alliance and the European Women's Lobby, discussed the results of a study published the day before that showed that, today, just over a third of the European Parliament is made up of women. 

The current situation

As a general principle, the European Institute for...