In 2019, 41 percent of the elected members of parliament (MPs) were women, an increase of four percent compared to the previous electoral period at 37 percent of MPs. Overall the share of female MPs has more than doubled during this time.
Gender distribution in the European Parliament from 1979 to 2019
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